Prestige Squeeze by Goyder John;

Author:Goyder, John; [Goyder, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 2009-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

THE 2005 SCALE

The examination of occupational-prestige ratings will begin with the individual scores and then shift to modeling the entire set. table 4.1 shows the scores for all 214 titles rated in the 2005 survey. This includes some non-labour force titles and the deliberately overlapped ones noted in chapter 3. Later tables will reduce down to labour force occupational titles rated in both 1965 and 2005, but, to start with, occupational prestige 2005 version, the first such scale at the national level in Canada in forty years.

“Physician” led the scale in 2005, with a score of 90. In 1965 physician was second-ranked, after “provincial premier,” a title not rated in 2005. Other professions such as “university professor” and “biologist” appear among the top ten scores, but so, more surprisingly, does “firefighter,” with a score of 82. One of the most spectacular gainers in prestige over forty years, firefighting received favourable mass media coverage during the 9/11 tragedy. For example, from a column reviewing several books on 9/11: “Oligarchs, politicians and celebrities, their wealth, power or fame suddenly meaningless, stood shoulder to shoulder with the firefighters, police, paramedics and public from far and near, the whole great, warm tide of humanity suddenly united and made equal by a pitiless storm and the thunderclouds of death” (Globe and Mail, 7 September 2002, D2).

Table 4.1

Scores for all Occupation Titles Rated in 2005, in Descending Order

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