Occupational Prestige Scale
An occupational prestige scale ranks occupations by their general social standing as judged by the public. In the classic design, survey respondents rate a list of occupations on a scale from excellent to poor standing, and the average rating for each occupation, rescaled to 0–100, is its prestige score. These scores have proven remarkably stable over time and strikingly similar across very different societies, making prestige one of the most robust measures in stratification research and the empirical anchor for socioeconomic indexes.
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Sources
- Treiman, D. J. (1977). Occupational Prestige in Comparative Perspective. Academic Press. ISBN: 978-0-12-698750-8
- Nakao, K., & Treas, J. (1994). Updating occupational prestige and socioeconomic scores: How the new measures measure up. Sociological Methodology, 24, 1–72. DOI: 10.2307/270978 ↗
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ScholarGate. (2026, June 22). Occupational Prestige Scale (Public Standing of Occupations). ScholarGate. https://scholargate.app/en/sociology/occupational-prestige-scale
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