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Over de homogeniteit van de arbeiderscultuur en de heterogeniteit van de cultuur van bedienden: een verkenning

Auteurs

  • Witte,Hans de

Trefwoorden:

Blue Collar Workers, White Collar Workers, Culture, Worker Attitudes, Lifestyle, Social Class, Sociocultural Factors, Socioeconomic Factors, Belgium, sociocultural vs socioecnomic attitudes, unskilled vs white-collar employees, Leuven, 1988 survey data

Samenvatting

The present status of working class culture is examined in an effort to evaluate two hypotheses: the individualization thesis predicts declining associations between attitude & occupation, while the embourgeoisement thesis asserts the progressive adoption of middle class attitudes & lifestyles. A survey of literature on working class attitudes suggests that blue-collar workers are still distinct, characterized by sociocultural conservatism & socioeconomic progressiveness. Cluster analysis of data from a 1988 survey of 171 unskilled & lower & middle white-collar employees (& their wives) of a company in Leuven, Belgium, reveals 6 attitudinal clusters. In defiance of the leveling predictions of both individualization & embourgeoisement theses, unskilled workers were overrepresented in clusters suggestive of both sociocultural conservatism & socioeconomic progressiveness. 2 Tables, 1 Figure, 37 References. Adapted from the source document.

Biografie auteur

Witte,Hans de

Gepubliceerd

1993-07-01

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