HIS-CAM - RC28 Spring Testing the universality of historical occupational stratification structures across time and space Presentation to the ISA RC28 Social Stratification and Mobility Spring meeting, Nijmegen, May th Paul LambertStirling University Richard Zijdeman, Ineke MaasUtrecht University Ken PrandyCardiff University Marco van LeeuwenInternational Institute for Social History
HIS-CAM - RC28 Spring Paper summary Q - Universality or specificity? A - Yes and No Q - Level of occupational detail? A - High and Low UniversalSpecific S & L; M & vL 2005 (social interactions) SOCPO ; HISCLASS HIS-CAM – o1 (Wright / Goldt. /..) HIS-CAM – o2 (Chan / Goldthorpe) HIS-CAM – o3 HIS-CAM – o4 HISCAM v0.1 HIS-CAM – o5 (CAMSIS)
HIS-CAM - RC28 Spring Historical data resources: marriage records for inter-generational occupational associations (HISCO) Netherlands ZA k HSN k Germany Knodel/Imhof *12k France TRA k Sweden DDB *19k Britain Miles/Vincent k FHS k Canada BALSAC k*
HIS-CAM - RC28 Spring Social Interaction and Stratification Goodmans RC-II association models CAMSIS: maximum specificity and detail
HIS-CAM - RC28 Spring GEODE - Grid Enabled Occupational Data Environment –..promises to end scheme operationalisation difficulties…! –Wide coverage: Occupational information depository –E-Social Science, Stirling University, Contact: / Use of Grid technologies to develop an internet based portal to facilitate data matching between source occupational data and occupational information resources such as social classification categories, stratification scale scores, segregation indexes, etc.
HIS-CAM - RC28 Spring Estimation process : lEM (Vermunt 1997)
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HISCAM v0.1SIOPSHISCLASS Universal7576 o5 / o1o5 Netherlands97 / Germany87 / France96 / Sweden88 / Britain90 / Canada89 / Early99 / Late95 / Male92 / Female95 /
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HIS-CAM - RC28 Spring Summary: HIS-CAM scales Universality is ok Specificity, & high occ. detail, is justified Statistically Substantively Specificity is problematic –operationalisations –measurement error