Stability and Change in the Social Status of Occupations Over 21 and 42 Year Periods

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Forty‐two years ago, Counts (1925) surveyed the social status of occupations and found a well‐defined prestige order, with banker at the top and ditch digger at the bottom. Because of changes wrought by the depression and World War II, Deeg and Paterson (1947) repeated Counts' study and found only minor relative changes in social status. Because of the extensive social and cultural changes since World War II, Counts' study was repeated again, and again only minor relative changes in the social status of occupations were found. The prestige order of the occupations surveyed is remarkably stable.

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