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Socio-economic Classifications. Part 1: An Abridged History
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Socio-economic Classifications: Part 2: The National Statistics Socio-economic Classification (NS-SEC)
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Socio-economic Classifications. Supplemental: Deriving the NS-SEC
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Recommended reading

• Rose, D. and Pevalin, D. (2001) The National Statistics Socio-economic Classification: Unifying Official and Sociological Approaches to the Conceptualisation and Measurement of Social Class. ISER Working Papers. Paper 2001-4. Colchester: University of Essex. Available at: https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/research/publications/working-papers/iser/2001-04
• A slightly revised version of the above paper was published the following year in the journal Sociétés Contemporaines, primarily for a French audience:
• Rose, D. and Pevalin, D. (2002) The National Statistics Socio-economic Classification: Unifying Official and Sociological Approaches to the Conceptualisation and Measurement of Social Class in the United Kingdom. Sociétés Contemporaines, 45: 75-106. Available at: https://www.cairn.info/revue-societes-contemporaines-2002-1-page-75.htm
• Rose, D. & Pevalin, D. with O'Reilly, K. (2005) The NS-SEC: Origins, Development and Use. London: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 1403996482
• Rose, D. & Pevalin, D. (eds) (2003) A Researcher's Guide to the National Statistics Socio-economic Classification. London: Sage Publications. ISBN 0761973222
• Rose, D. & O’Reilly, K. (eds) (1997) Constructing Classes: Towards a new Social Classification for the UK. Swindon: ESRC/ONS.ISBN 0862262542 SOC 2010 version:
• SOC2010 Volume 3: the National Statistics Socio-economic classification (NS-SEC rebased on SOC2010). Online at: https://www.ons.gov.uk/methodology/classificationsandstandards/standardoccupationalclassificationsoc/soc2010/soc2010volume3thenationalstatisticssocioeconomicclassificationnssecrebasedonsoc2010
• Rose, D. and Pevalin, D. (2010) Re-basing the NS-SEC on SOC2010. A Report to ONS. Available at: https://www.ons.gov.uk/file?uri=/methodology/classificationsandstandards/standardoccupationalclassificationsoc/soc2010/soc2010volume3thenationalstatisticssocioeconomicclassificationnssecrebasedonsoc2010/davidrosereporttcm77179134.pdf
• SOC 2020 version:
• SOC 2020 Volume 3: the National Statistics Socio-economic Classification (NS-SEC rebased on the SOC 2020). Online at: https://www.ons.gov.uk/methodology/classificationsandstandards/standardoccupationalclassificationsoc/soc2020/soc2020volume3thenationalstatisticssocioeconomicclassificationnssecrebasedonthesoc2020 Critiques of the NS-SEC
• Prandy, K. (1998) Deconstructing Classes: Critical Comments on the Revised Social Classification. Work, Employment and Society, 12(4): 743-753. Cambridge Scale
• Prandy, K. (1990) The Revised Cambridge Scale of Occupations. Sociology, 24(4): 629-655.
• Prandy, K. & Lambert, P. (2003) Marriage, social distance and social space: An alternative derivation and validation of the Cambridge Scale. Sociology, 37(3): 397-411. Goldthorpe Schemas
• Erikson, R. & Goldthorpe, J. (1992) The Constant Flux: A Study of Class Mobility in Industrial Societies. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• Evans, G. (1992) Testing the Validity of the Goldthorpe Class Schema. European Sociological Review, 8(3): 211-232. Great British Class Survey
• Savage, M., Devine, F. et al. (2013) A New Model of Social Class? Findings from the BBC’s Great British Class Survey Experiment. Sociology, 47(2): 219-250.
• Professor Savage’s talk on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1rSJedkoQ4
• Devine, F. & Snee, H. (2015) Doing the Great British Class Survey. The Sociological Review, 63(2): 240-258. Available at:
• https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-954X.12282
• Mills, C. (2014) The Great British Class fiasco: A comment on Savage et al. Sociology, 48 (3): 437–444.
• Mills, C. (2015) The Great British Class Survey: Requiescat in Pace. The Sociological Review, 63(2): 393-399. General material
• Connelly, R., Gayle, V. and Lambert, P.S. (2016) A Review of occupation-based social classifications for social survey research. Methodological Innovations. https://doi.org/10.1177/2059799116638003
• Szreter, S.R.S. (1984) The genesis of the Registrar General’s social classification of occupations. British Journal of Sociology, 35(4): 523-546.
• Rose, D. and Harrison, E. (eds) (2009) Social Class in Europe. London: Routledge.