Occupational Prestige of Urban and Rural Population in Different Countries

Abstract

The article presents the results of cross-cultural study of occupational prestige in urban and rural areas, peculiarities of reproduction of positions in the hierarchy of occupational prestige. The empirical basis of the study is represented by the data of the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP), in particular, by its module "Social Inequality" realized in 2009. Reproduction of stratification order was considered as a multidimensional process that combined horizontal (correspondence of status characteristics of both the respondent and his partner and respondent’s parents) and vertical (link between the respondent's position and his origin) planes. In the study the existence of differences in the occupational structure of urban and rural population of post-communist and non-communist countries and higher prestige of urban population occupation was proved.