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Occupational naming conventions: historicity, actors, interactions
Konventionen der Berufsbezeichnung: Historizität, Akteure, Interaktionen
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Abstract "Since the Middle Ages, governments have been using occupational titles and categories as some of the main criteria for the identification of individuals. Resulting from a complex interaction between endogenous categories created by the actors in the naming process and exogenous categories developed... view more
"Since the Middle Ages, governments have been using occupational titles and categories as some of the main criteria for the identification of individuals. Resulting from a complex interaction between endogenous categories created by the actors in the naming process and exogenous categories developed by public authorities, occupational titles and socio-occupational categories and designations are the product of negotiations, conventions and agreements between various actors. Therefore, it appears that as part of a pragmatic approach towards the development of socio-occupational designations, it would be pertinent for historians to apply the theories of the 'économie des conventions'. Doing so, this paper seeks to approach the issue of the historicity of occupational naming by considering the building of the state, followed by the role and autonomy of various actors in naming processes, and finally the way in which occupational registration and categorisation influenced the social prestige and `grandeue of those concerned in the creation and transformation of linguistic conventions." (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
labor; occupation; sociology; convention; historical development; social actor; interaction; category; state formation; language; pragmatism; statistics
Classification
Social History, Historical Social Research
Occupational Research, Occupational Sociology
Method
applied research; descriptive study
Document language
English
Publication Year
2011
Page/Pages
p. 82-102
Journal
Historical Social Research, 36 (2011) 4
Issue topic
Conventions and institutions from a historical perspective / Konventionen und Institutionen in historischer Perspektive
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.36.2011.4.82-102
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed