>Dear Folk,
> Oxley brain-picking again. Actually it don't go all one way; I DO
>send things TO people who come up on the network with queries &/or common
>interests. Just send them to the people concerned and not all over the
>network.
> OK. Student doing a little ethnography of a hotel came up with some
>fine examples of the minutiae of claims to prestige by occupation. This
>job gets more money than that one or has more autonomy, obviously enough,
>jostling together the only slightly less obvious bits about whether the
>task is traditionally menial (as with cleaners) or not or whether it
>involves kow-towing to the Almighty Customer, some quite surprising ones
>like cleaners who regularly clean on a higher floor claiming a prestige
>increment over those who clean on lower floors. And so on and so on. Good
>stirring stuff.
> I am hunting up the trad sociology of this area (or at least the
>recent stuff - not on "prestige ratings" but on reasons why) but it struck
>me that this sort of thing is like I nowadays find practically every sort
>of thing in being all very much about CONSTRUCTS.
> Anyone know anything reasonably recent on job prestige from the pcp
>angle? Any information much appreciated.
> Harry Oxley
>
>PS; that stuff on whether Kelly had or had not rejected his own grid in
>later life (like those disputes about whether some lifelong atheist Found
>God on his deathbed) was a lot of fun. Jolly good stuff!
>Harry Oxley
>
>
Regards,
Mike Procter
Department of Sociology
University of Surrey
Guildford GU2 5XH
UK
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