Occupational Prestige Rankings and the New Zealand Olympic Athlete

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This study of the New Zealand team at the Montreal Olympics suggests 5 categories of occupational prestige. In the first category of egalitarian sports are hockey and shooting. Rowing draws on an intermediate category and swimming, with high student numbers, is an undetermined category. Athletics, boxing and cyclinig are in a blue collar/manual category, while ca noeing, equestrian, weightlifting, wresting and yachting fit into a white collar/non- manual category. Only one sport, yachting, draws its major membership from one occupational prestige rank. It is concluded that 3 sports (hockey, shooting and rowing) tend to draw from a cross-section of occupational prestige rankings, while 8 sports (athletics, boxing, cycling, canoeing equestian, weightlifting, and yachting) lie either within a blue collar/manual or a white collar/manual or a white collar/non-manual category.

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