A Prestige Scale for Agricultural Occupations [microform] / Arthur G. Cosby and Lianne M. Frank
- Bib ID:
- 5345755
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Cosby, Arthur G
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED149915
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1978
- 36 p.
- Summary:
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A prestige scale for 50 agricultural and agriculturally related occupations was developed. The scale was constructed utilizing data from a mailed-questionnaire survey conducted during the spring semester of 1977 at 14 universities in the Southern United States. A 15% random sample of undergraduate majors in agriculture at these schools were contacted; this resulted in an initial target sample of 3,398 students. Seventy-four percent, or 2,392 students, participated in the study. Questionnaire items and scaling techniques closely parallel those used in the National Opinion Research Center study (North-Hatt Scale). The scale indicated that: veterinarian, with a prestige score of 92.7 was rated as the most prestigious occupation while migrant laborer, with a score of 34.0, was the occupation with the lowest evaluation; there was a decided tendency for the sample to evaluate professional, managerial, and scientific occupations toward the top of the prestige hierarchy; swine raisers were given substantially lower scores than cattle raisers; poultry raisers were ranked slightly lower than swine raisers; farm production occupations were ranked high only if they involved either ownership or management by inference. A copy of the prestige scale for agricultural occupations, the scale value for each occupation, and an index of agreement for each occupation are reported along with an analysis of several factors which may explain differences in the perception of prestige. (Author/NQ)
- Notes:
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- Sponsoring Agency: Cooperative State Research Service (USDA), Washington, DC.
- ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Rural Sociology Section, Southern Association of Agricultural Scientists (Houston, Texas, February 5-8, 1978).
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- Publication date:
- 1978
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