caa a22 4500 397524765 CHVBK 20180308164642.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e199505 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/oxfordjournals.esr.a036342 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/oxfordjournals.esr.a036342 Class, Gender, and the Asymmetry Hypothesis [Elektronische Daten] [GORDON MARSHALL, STEPHEN ROBERTS, CAROLE BURGOYNE, ADAM SWIFT, DAVID ROUTH] This paper reviews three interconnected issues that have been central to the controversial problem of describing the relationship between class and gender. First, the matter of taxonomy, and whether or not extant class schemes are suitable for the study of women's employment. Second, the question of how sex segregation in the occupational structure relates to regimes of class inequality and class mobility; more specifically, of the connections between absolute mobility rates and relative mobility chances. Finally, the attempt to identify the unit of class composition, in particular the so-called asymmetry hypothesis concerning the pattern of relationships among the class positions of spouses and the attributes that are said to comprise socio-political class formation. We argue that the last of these provides the most important strand to the debate, and present new cross-national data on the relationships between class identities, voting behaviour, and the social class standing of male and female partners. The findings for advanced capitalist societies support the conventional view that the unit of class composition is the household. However, those for post-communist states are contrary to conventional expectations, suggesting that processes of sociopolitical class formation may be different in East and West. © Oxford University Press Articles nationallicence MARSHALL GORDON Nuffield College Oxford OX1 INF, UK. aut ROBERTS STEPHEN Nuffield College Oxford OX1 INF, UK. aut BURGOYNE CAROLE Department of Psychology, University of Exeter, Washington Singer Laboratories Perry Road, Exeter EX4 4QG, UK. aut SWIFT ADAM Balliol College Oxford OX1 3BJ, UK aut ROUTH DAVID Department of Psychology, University of Bristol 8 Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1TN, UK. aut European Sociological Review Oxford University Press 11/1(1995-05), 1-15 0266-7215 11:1<1 1995 11 eursoj https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.esr.a036342 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.esr.a036342 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- MARSHALL GORDON Nuffield College Oxford OX1 INF, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- ROBERTS STEPHEN Nuffield College Oxford OX1 INF, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- BURGOYNE CAROLE Department of Psychology, University of Exeter, Washington Singer Laboratories Perry Road, Exeter EX4 4QG, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- SWIFT ADAM Balliol College Oxford OX1 3BJ, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- ROUTH DAVID Department of Psychology, University of Bristol 8 Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1TN, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- European Sociological Review Oxford University Press 11/1(1995-05), 1-15 0266-7215 11:1<1 1995 11 eursoj Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford