The Social Structure of the USSR: Recent Soviet Studies by Murray Yanowitch

Author:Murray Yanowitch [Yanowitch, Murray]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, General
ISBN: 9780873324687
Google: JBto6I97WdIC
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Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Published: 1986-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

To get a clearer picture of the special features of occupational prestige, let us examine it in developmental terms, as a dynamic. In order to do this we shall present data for the USSR, and compare the occupational evaluations of secondary school graduates in the 1970s with those of graduates of the same schools ten years earlier.5

Evaluations are generally trending upward. Significantly, this affects the majority of workers' occupations and the mass-based jobs which do not require higher education. Thus the boys and girls of Novosibirsk unanimously increased their ratings of the attractiveness of agricultural work and transport and service jobs, the construction trades (boys), and worker specialties in light industry and the food industry (girls) (see Table 3). The notable thing about young people's higher evaluations of jobs in health care, education, and culture is that there was a more signficant rise for the occupations of nurse, cultural-educational worker, and librarian than for the occupations of doctor, writer, and journalist. Typically, also, the prestige of research social scientists and biologists rose and that of physicists and mathematicians fell.

Table 2 Evaluation of Selected Mental Occupations by Unskilled Workers and Specialists with Higher Education, Bulgaria, Hungary, and the USSR

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