ISBN: 0029036704 9780029036709

Category: Business & Economics / Careers / General

Page count: 520

<b>Peter M. Blau and Otis Dudley Duncan pen a classic source of empirical information on the patterns of occupational achievement in American society.</b><br><br>Based on an unusually comprehensive set of data, <i>The American Occupational Structure </i>is renowned for its pioneering methods of statistical analysis, as well as its far-reaching conclusions about social stratification and occupation mobility in the United States.<br> <br>Presenting “sociology at its scientific best” (<i>Fortune), The American Occupation Structure </i>received the Sorokin Award of the American Sociological Association in recognition of its significant contribution to the social sciences.