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Title:Occupational prestige ratings by Nigerian students
Author:Morgan (jr), R.W.
Year:1965
Periodical:The Nigerian Journal of Economic and Social Studies
Volume:7
Issue:3
Pages:325-332
Language:English
Geographic term:Nigeria
Subject:social stratification
Abstract:In 1963 two groups comprising 104 first-year University of Ibadan students were asked to rate 41 occupations according to each student's 'own opinion of the general standing' or prestige which each occupation enjoyed. The findings in Ibadan strikingly parallel those in other cultures entirely different from Nigeria's. In this paper, after discussion of the theoretical background, methodology, data analysis, the results of the exercise are persented. A proposition is made that cultures may vary, but sociological process seems almost everywhere to be the same. This proposition, of course, demands extensive further testing in a variety of research settings. Figure; table; questionnaire.
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