Images of Social Stratification: Occupational Structures and Class

In Images of Social Stratification, Coxon and Davies investigate how people perceive and evaluate occupations. They challenge the validity of existing occupational hierarchies and propose a fundamentally new approach to the problem. This highly readable and non-technical book makes an important contribution to sociological debates about stratification, status and class and for areas as diverse as job evaluation, personnel management and careers guidance.

Tony Coxon is an Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Edinburgh′s School of Social and Political Studies. He is also Emeritus Professor, University of Wales, College of Cardiff. He has taught MDS and advanced quantitative methods for more than 30 years and written numerous articles on the various techniques and models associated with MDS. Most notably, Dr. Coxon has published three methodology texts: The User′s Guide to Multidimensional Scaling (1982, Heineman); Key Texts in Multidimensional Scaling (1982, Heineman); and Sorting Data: Collection and Analysis (1999, Sage QASS series). He has also written 41 entries in the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Sociology, and most recently wrote the entry on multidimensional scaling for The SAGE Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods (2003).