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Dave Griffiths

@drdavegriffiths.bsky.social

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Sociologist at Stirling Uni. Interests in social network analysis, social stratification, disadvantage, health egonets, quantitative methods and some other stuff.

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Dave Griffiths @drdavegriffiths.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

(12) Conclusion argues that effects of homophily around social stratification position are important in the reproduction of inequality (13/14)

Text: "We called the social ties that connect occupations a 'social resin', because this metaphor suggests a powerful force that shapes structure, whilst nevertheless exhibiting some malleability. Empirical patterns in social connections are consistent with a circular and mutually reinforcing relationship between social connections and occupational inequalities - that is, occupational inequalities foster social connection patterns, and social interactions foster occupational outcomes, as suggested by the two quotes above. But in what way, if at all, is the 'social resin' - the powerful empirical relationship between social interaction patterns, and social stratification systems - of importance in theorising social stratification and social reproduction?

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Dave Griffiths @drdavegriffiths.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

(11) Exploiting Non-standard Dimension Scores and Network Structures in the Analysis of Social Interactions Between Occupations looks at other forms of homophily in people's connections and breaks down the analysis to explore differences between subgroups (12/14)

Network of over-represented occupational combinations in the UK, by age group. Much more cases for the males 20-40 than for males over 40.

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Dave Griffiths @drdavegriffiths.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

(10) Social Interactions and Educational Inequality provides an intersectional approach to examing the role of education in occupational stratification (11/14)

Visualisation of the SID solution for the analysis of combined categories of occupation and education. Within social classes, people with higher qualifications always have more advantaged positions than people with lesser qualifications in the same class. Graduates in elementary occupations have higher scores than professionals with no school qualifications. Educational dimension important for understanding stratification structure.

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Dave Griffiths @drdavegriffiths.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

(9) Occupational-Level Residuals and Distributional Parameters explores other meaningful approaches using pairs of occupations, including random effects modelling (10/14)

A graph of the job-level residuals for predicting level of contact with closest friends in the UK from 1991-2008 (BHPS data)

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Dave Griffiths @drdavegriffiths.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

(8) Social Network Analysis of Occupational Connections converts those occupations which are commonly linked into a network to explore how stratification patterns can be observed and meaningfully compared (9/14)

A sociogram connecting occupations which marry each other more often than we would expect by chance in Texas in 2000.

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Dave Griffiths @drdavegriffiths.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

(7) Networked Occupations looks at which occupations tend to connect more often than we would imagine if randomly distributed - this shows the effect of stratification in a slightly different way to Social Interaction Distance approaches (8/14)

Table showing the most common combinations of marriages amongst heterosexual couples in the USA in 2000. They are: male truck drivers married to female secretaries, primary school teachers, nurses and accounts clerks; and male retail supervisors married to secretaries. Despite being common, truck drivers marry secretaries, primary school teachers and nurses less than we would expect given the proportions of those groups in society.

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Dave Griffiths @drdavegriffiths.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

(6) Constructing CAMSIS Scales provides the recipe (and #Stata syntax) for creating a scheme from data on pairs of occupations, managing the data and dealing with pseudo-diagonals (pairings which do not reflect the stratification structure) (7/14)

Graph showing three dimensions of a correspondence analysis.

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Dave Griffiths @drdavegriffiths.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

(5) Evaluating CAMSIS scales explores the characteristics of #CAMSIS (and #HISCAM) schemes between countries, drawing on consistencies we commonly see, and how differences often uncover important contours of that society (6/14)

Graph of male and female CAMSIS scores across 12 different societies, showing they are broadly similar to each other in the shape of their distribution.

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Dave Griffiths @drdavegriffiths.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

(4) #CAMSIS and the Analysis of Social Interaction Distance provides the theoretical underpinning of how studying combinations of occupations can produce a valid and nuanced stratification scheme of the position of each individual occupation (5/14)

Graph showing relationship between the CAMSIS and SIOPS occupational measures, which are highly correlated but with individual occupational unit groups often higher on one than the other.

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Dave Griffiths @drdavegriffiths.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

(3) Measures of Social Stratification provides an overview of ways of measuring stratification, exploring the different forms of occupational, social class, geographical, income and #GBCS style approaches (4/14)

Table of fictional people all earning £1,500 per month. The expendable income of a retired person with no mortgage is much, much higher than a single parent dental assistant, who has mortgage, commuting, childcare and child living expenses.

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Dave Griffiths @drdavegriffiths.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

(2) Homophily and Endogamy adds the theoretical background, arguing that both occupation and social connections are useful predictors of people's attitudes and behaviours (3/14)

Graph of similarity of people's tastes, attitudes and incomes. Generally, people within occupations share some characteristics, albeit less than the levels of similarity we see within households.

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Dave Griffiths @drdavegriffiths.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

(1) Introduction is an overview of why the occupations of people we're socially connected to are sociologically important. The difference in social circles between #Gazza and Tory politicians illustrate this point (2/14)

Characterisation of the footballer Paul Gascoigne, in terms of occupation (unemployed former footballer), parental occupation (building labourer, cleaner), friends (footballers, roofers, bouncers, broadcasters), hobbies (pubs, fishing, football) and education (left school at 16).

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Dave Griffiths @drdavegriffiths.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Thread giving a chapter-by-chapter overview of Social Inequalities and Occupational Stratification (co-authored with Paul Lambert) #CAMSIS #SNA #SocialInequality

Cover of Social Inequalities and Occupational Stratification

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