Leonard Broom

The Inheritance of inequality

Buku ini memberikan informasi tentang: karier sosio-ekonomi: model dasar, pendidikan dan permulaan karier, karir dan kontinjensi karir, status dan pendapatan lampiran: memperkirakan dampak pendidikan dan pengalaman dan lebih dari tiga generasi.

Supplement: An Occupational Classification of the Australian Workforce

A QUESTION relating to occupation has been included in all federal censuses of Australia. Although, as the Appendix indicates, the form of this occupational question has remained largely the same, the Bureau of Census and Statistics has tabulated responses in varying ways, partly because of changes in Australia’s occupational structure but also because of some dissatisfaction with the classificatory schemed I Moreover, the number of occupational categories and the detail of cross-tabulations between occupation and other population characteristics have been modified from one census to another. In 1933 almost 1,000 occupations

The Negro Professional Class.

What do you do to start reading the negro professional class? Searching the book that you love to read first or find an interesting book that will make you want to read? Everybody has difference with their reason of reading a book. Actuary, reading habit must be from earlier. Many people may be love to read, but not a book. Its not fault. Someone will be bored to open the thick book with small words to read. In more, this is the real condition. So do happen probably with this the negro professional class.

Father-to-Son Mobility: Australia in Comparative Perspective

This report of findings from the first national survey of social stratification and social mobility conducted in Australia attempts to fill a gap noticed by students interested in the comparative analysis of mobility … The findings of our Australian survey serve as the point of departure for comparisons with recent data for Italy and the United States…

Is It True What They Say About Daddy

The traditional method for assesing generational mobility hass been exposed to remeasurement studies but not to the test of an alternative questioning strategy. This paper describes a design in which intergenerational mobility is studies from two perspectives. In the conventional approach sons report on their own statuses and give proxy reports for parental statuses. In our second perspective parents are questioned about themselves and give proxy information on their children. Estimates of a five-variable status-attainment model for eachperspective yield similar results, but some correlations and regressions differ significantly because nonrandom errors influence the reporting of socioeconomic data among adults. Our anomalous findings suggest that mobility researchers might consider employing both questioning strategies as a guide to potential biases until a definitive test shows that the caution prescribed in this paper is unwarranted. Consumers of mobility studies are entitled to reserve judgment on data that depend entirely on the traditional approach even though current research adheres to it almost without exception.

Educational Status of Aborigines

Aborigines is incomplete and inaccurate. In statistical terms Aborigines are a negligible part of the Australian population. They may amount to roughly one per cent of the total, but Australian historical and political scholarship rarely gives them one per cent of the attention (and betterment policies have never allocated 1 per cent of the GNP). However, the social and sociological significance of a phenomenon is not necessarily restricted to the magnitude of its mass nor to the size of a scholarly or monetary investment. From the standpoint of stratification research, the Aborigines, a minute part of an extreme of the social distribution, are significant because of the discontinuity between them and the rest of the population. Societies must be understood for their disjunctions and discontinuities as well as for their

Workforce and Occupational Statuses of Aborigines

earned income, of probable skill and training, of authority, of prestige and of other elements that make up an individual’s position in the social order. For the same reasons, differences in workforce and occupational statuses measure the economic and social subordination or superordination of identifiable populations, and changes in such indicators are the best clues to alterations in social rankings and in the

A Modest Test of an Immodest Theory: The Functional Theory of Stratification

Two hypothesis relating responsibility, reward and performance were designed to test the Davis and Moore functional theory of stratification. Large companies in the private sector of the United States economy were selected as the source of empirical evidence to test the theory. The data base was thought to be favorable to positive findings. The responsibility variable was measured by company assets, reward was measured by total compensation of the chief executive officer, and performance was indexed by several measures of growth and profitability. Over 700 of the largest companies in the United States were grouped into sixteen relatively homogenous business activity types in order to control for (1) scarcities of qualified incumbents, (2) structural differences between industries and (3) market conditions. The results provide limited evidence of a relationship between magnitude of responsibility (functional importance) and executive compensation (reward). No support was found for a hypothesized relationship between company performance, however measured, and executive compensation. Taken as a whole, the results do not confirm the functional theory.

Problematics in Stratum Consistency and Stratum Formation: An Australian Example

Questions relating to the consistency of the stratification order can be posed at the level of social aggregates as well as at the individual level. This paper draws on Australian socioeconomic data to illustrate issues involved in defining relatively homogeneous social strata in terms of commonly occurring status profiles and in exploring the effects of stratum characteristics such as degree of stratum homogeneity and stratum attribute consistency. Positional awareness, defined in terms of class identification and voting behavior, is examined in relation to the contextual variables of stratum homogeneity and stratum attribute consistency, which show weak effects once the average level of socioeconomic status of different strata is taken into account. The low salience of such contextual variables is explained partly by relatively high stratum permeability, reflected in high rates of father-to-son mobility, and partly by the difficulty of establishing that the strata as defined are perceived as naturally occurring groups.