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* Prestige reflects factual, scientific knowledge about the material rewards attached to certain occupations.
Different people seem to weight these issues differently in their understanding of prestige. Most people seem to implicitly view prestige as a weighted average of income and education and this is the operational definition used in indices like DSI and ISEI. However other people (especially in the working class) seem to have more moralized notions of how much a job helps society and would, for instance, rate doctors high and lawyers low even though both jobs require postgraduate degrees and earn high incomes.<ref>Donald J. Treiman. (1977). Occupational Prestige in Comparative Perspective. New York: ''Academic Press''.</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Young | first1 = Michael | last2 = Willmott | first2 = Peter | year = 1956 | title = Social Grading by Manual Workers | url = | journal = British Journal of Sociology | volume = 7 | issue = | pages = 337–345 | doi=10.2307/586697}}</ref>
The indicators most commonly used to measure SES come from Duncan's (1961) Socioeconomic Index (SEI), a composite of occupational prestige, income, and education. Duncan used data from North and Hart's study of 1949 occupational prestige and census data <ref name="North1949"/> to conduct the first correlational study of the statistical relationship between education, income, and occupation. Duncan focused on white males with at least a high school education and income of $3,500 dollars or more in 1949, and found correlations among income, public-ranking of occupational prestige, and educational level of around 0.75. The study did not report whether the index included a sample of ethnic minorities.<ref name="Easton2007">Easton-Brooks, D. & Davis, A. (2007). Wealth, Traditional Socioeconomic Indicators, and The Achievement Debt. ''The Journal of Negro Education''. Washington: Fall 2007. '''76''' (4); 530–542.</ref>
The SEI model continues to influence the way researchers measure SES. The National Educational Longitudinal Study (NELS:88, NCES, 1988) initially employed a measure of SES developed by Stevens and Featherman (1981) based on father's income, mother's income, father's education, mother's education, and father's and mother's occupation as rated by the SEI model. In the first-year follow-up study, the [[National Center for Education Statistics]] (1990) used the Nakao and Treas (1994) revised SEI model.
<ref name="Nakao">{{cite journal | last1 = Nakao | first1 = K. | last2 = Treas | first2 = J. | year = 1994 | title = Updating Occupational Prestige and Socioeconomic Scores: How the new measures measure up. | url = | journal = Sociological Methodology | volume = 24 | issue = | pages = 1–72 | doi=10.2307/270978}}</ref>
==Calculating occupational prestige in the United States==
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=== Sources ===
* {{cite journal | last1 = Stevens | first1 = G | last2 = Featherman | first2 = D. L. | year = 1981 | title = A Revised Socioeconomic Index of Occupational Status | url = | journal = Social Science Research | volume = 10 | issue = | pages = 364–395 | doi=10.1016/0049-089x(81)90011-9}}
* {{cite journal | last1 = Klaczynski | first1 = Paul A | year = 1991 | title = Sociocultural Myths and Occupational Attainment: Educational Influences on Adolescents' Perceptions of Social Status | url = | journal = Youth and Society | volume = 22 | issue = 4| pages = 448–467 | doi=10.1177/0044118x91022004002}}
* "In U.S., Women's Weight Gain Brings Loss of Income, Job Prestige, Study Finds." Health & Medicine Weekly, 2005, June. Retrieved March 9, 2006, from NewRx database.
* Schooler, C., & Schoenbach, C. (1994, September). "Social Class, Occupational Status, Occupational Self-Direction, and Job Income: A Cross-National Examination. Sociological Forum." Academic Search Premier database, 1994, September 431–459.
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