1 女性の社会移動の新たな視座に向けて : 所得関数による地位達成過程分析(テーマ別分科会1=社会的・経済的格差とジェンダー,II テーマ別分科会=報告論文と座長報告)

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The thrust of this article is to suggest a new approach in analyzing gender inequality in social stratification research. Women were not regarded as agents of social mobility due to certain implicit assumptions concerning social stratification research. Though this indifference on the 'gender issue' was challenged, the problem was not solved because there is no consensus as to which indicator best represents both employed and non-employed women all together. In order to measure status attainment of women without reducing their heterogeneity, not only technical improvements but also conceptual changes are necessary. This article suggests that we should abandon the concept of monolithic stratification and reconstruct the concept of status. I propose to break down the concept of social status into two dimensions, occupational status and living-standard status. By analying direct and indirect paths of women's status attainment separately, I will attempt to show the existence of complicity between the two dimensions, which, I argue, account for gender inequality.