This book explores how structures of social inequality are linked to the
social connections that people hold. The authors focus upon occupational
inequalities where they see, for example, that the typical friendship
patterns of people from one occupation are often very different to those
of people from another.
Social Inequalities and Occupational Stratification leverages empirical
data about differences in social connections to chart structures of
social distance and social inequality. Several of its chapters provide
coverage of the long-standing Cambridge Social Interaction and
Stratification scale (CAMSIS) project and its approach to analysing
social interaction patterns in terms of a single dimension related to
social inequality.