Entry:

Felson, Marcus and Knoke, David, "Social Status and the Married Woman," Journal of Marriage and the Family, 36 (August, 1974), 516-521.


Abstract:

Husband's occupational prestige and family income have the greatest direct impact on subjective class position. Male head-of-household characteristics and combined family income provide the main cues for self-placement, although the empirical relationships are less extreme than many of the assumptions of previous stratification theory.

GSS Years:

1972

GSS Codebook Variables referenced by document:

Variable Name

Variable Label

 
 
AGE

AGE OF RESPONDENT

MARITAL

MARITAL STATUS

SEX

RESPONDENTS SEX

EDUC

HIGHEST YEAR OF SCHOOL COMPLETED

SPEDUC

"HIGHEST YEAR SCHOOL COMPLETED

INCOME72

TOTAL FAMILY INCOME

PRESTIGE

RS OCCUPATIONAL PRESTIGE SCORE (1970)

SPPRES

SPOUSES OCCUPATIONAL PRESTIGE SCORE (1970)

PAEDUC

"HIGHEST YEAR SCHOOL COMPLETED

PAPRES16

FATHERS OCCUPATIONAL PRESTIGE SCORE (1970)

CLASS

SUBJECTIVE CLASS IDENTIFICATION

SPWRKSTA

SPOUSE LABOR FORCE STATUS

WRKSTAT

LABOR FRCE STATUS