This research aims to find out the features fixation of professional information among urban population in Russian parish register books and to find out opportunities of social mobility studying. Parish register books contain various information about social (professional) position of people participating in rituals. Considering information was divided by us ...
(Show more)This research aims to find out the features fixation of professional information among urban population in Russian parish register books and to find out opportunities of social mobility studying. Parish register books contain various information about social (professional) position of people participating in rituals. Considering information was divided by us in three types: 1) data on occupation, 2) data on rank or title 3) data on status. The ways of presenting these types of social and professional information are different. Focusing on the codification rules and principles developed by the creators of HISCO, optimally allocate a few ways:
1) data on person’s occupation (rank). Person involved in the ritual is the "carrier" of occupation ("direct" record);
2) data on person’s former occupation (rank) by reason of resignation or dismissal. Person involved in the ritual is the "carrier" of occupation in the past (“temporary” relation);
3) data on occupation (rank) of person’s father or husband. Person involved in the ritual is not the "carrier" of occupation (“family” relation)
4) data on person’s status. Information does not contain a reference to the occupation (widow, adulterate, foundling, etc.). Person involved in the ritual is the "carrier" of “status”.
If we systematize social and occupational information in this way, we can include large part of records in the classification scheme (HISCO). Certain difficulties arise with the classification of ranks and titles. In our opinion, they should be referred to officials in the distribution of occupations (of the Employed) among HISCO Groups. Information about the status can be used in the study of social mobility.
In the study of social mobility is necessary to use information not only on "direct" participants of ceremonies, but also "secondary" (godparents, bridesmaids, etc.). There are four persons besides the baby (father, mother, godfather and godmother) register in “The born” table, seven persons in “The married” table and two persons in “The dead” one (deceased and/or relative). Thus, we found that almost 51% of the records contains a direct or indirect reference of information about occupational affiliation of the population. At the same time, records with “direct” data on person’s occupation make 11%. This suggests that in the process of binding data must include the above-mentioned persons.
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