Many studies on occupational prestige point out that every society has same type of occupational hierarchy irrespective of her history or culture,but such assertion does not fit our daily observation. This paper will ...Many studies on occupational prestige point out that every society has same type of occupational hierarchy irrespective of her history or culture,but such assertion does not fit our daily observation. This paper will compare occupational prestige score and criteria for judgement in China and Japan to check whether they share the same structure of evaluation of occupation by the data of Harbin City survey in 1993 and Japanese SSM survey in 1995.As a result,we can find some unique difference between China and Japan in spite of their superficial commonality in occupational prestige score.展开更多
文摘Many studies on occupational prestige point out that every society has same type of occupational hierarchy irrespective of her history or culture,but such assertion does not fit our daily observation. This paper will compare occupational prestige score and criteria for judgement in China and Japan to check whether they share the same structure of evaluation of occupation by the data of Harbin City survey in 1993 and Japanese SSM survey in 1995.As a result,we can find some unique difference between China and Japan in spite of their superficial commonality in occupational prestige score.