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Crewe's Test of the Embourgeoisement Thesis
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 January 2009
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Ivor Crewe begins his paper on the affluent worker research by giving clear expression to a number of objections which may be brought against that work. He then goes on to make two tests of the embourgeoisement thesis which Goldthorpe, Lockwood and their colleagues called into question. This Note concerns itself with only one of the two tests, namely that based on correlations of residuals.
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1 Crewe, Ivor, “The politics of “affluent” and “traditional” workers in Britain: an aggregate data analysis’, British Journal of Political Science, III (1973), 29–52.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
2 He actually says that in each case he computed the regression of percentage of manual workers on the other variable, but this appears, from his further description of the regression analyses, to be merely a reversal of the usual jargon.
3 More strictly this variable appears to be the proportion of economically-active males who are in manual categories.
4 Which might or might not mean that they live in a more middle-class context. Changes in environment, and in perceived class of the environment, can be quite abrupt within a local electoral division, still more within a constituency. Constituencies are poor aggregations for the testing of sociological hypotheses.
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