The Status of Jobs and Occupations as Evaluated by an Urban Negro Sample
1955; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 20; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/2092565
ISSN1939-8271
Autores Tópico(s)Race, History, and American Society
ResumoTHIS paper is a brief report of a study dealing with the status of jobs and occupations as evaluated by Negroes of Columbus, Ohio. The author attempted to make a small-scale test of the hypothesis that Negro evaluation of jobs and occupations differs significantly from that of white Americans as reflected in the North-Hatt jobscale of the mid-1940's.1 The latter scale includes ninety different jobs of varying occupational levels as evaluated by a nationwide cross-section of the adult white U. S. population. North and Hatt discovered that white respondents gave the highest status rating to the U. S. Supreme Court Justice. Physician and State Governor tied for second place, with Cabinet Member in the Federal Government, Diplomat in the U. S. Foreign Service, and Mayor of a Large City occupying the next highest positions, in descending order. Respondents gave the lowest prestige or status ratings to the jobs of Bartender, Janitor, Garbage Collector, Street-sweeper, and Shoe shiner. Since the North-Hatt study, new considerations have arisen with respect to how Negroes might have rated the occupations, or how the total list of jobs might have appeared in scalar order had Negro persons been included in the study sample. Interest in the evaluations by Negroes may have had its genesis partly in the finding that characteristic attitudes and values derive from the social and cultural setting, and that, due to conditions which differentiate the white and Negro populations sociologically, Negroes tend at times to respond to social and economic factors quite unlike the larger popu-
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