HISCO. Historical International Standard Classification of Occupations.HISCO. Historical International Standard Classification of Occupations The International Standard Classification of Occupations is an International Labour Organization (ILO) classification structure. The current version, known as ISCO-88, is the third iteration, following ISCO-58 and ISCO-66. . By Marco H. D. van Leeuwen Leeuwen is a former village and municipality in the Dutch province of Gelderland. It is now divided into the two villages of Beneden-Leeuwen and Boven-Leeuwen. Leeuwen was a separate municipality until 1818, when it was merged with Wamel. , Ineke Maas Maas, river: see Meuse. and Andrew Miles (Louvain: Leuven University Press, 2002. 441 pp.). The book proposes a solution for an important technical problem of quantitative studies of change of social mobility, of occupations, of demography demography (dĭmŏg`rəfē), science of human population. Demography represents a fundamental approach to the understanding of human society. or of education. Each new study has to develop a classification of the titles of individual activities in primary sources. For most studies it takes weeks or even months to develop a classification which fits the specific period, the specific country and the specific theme under investigation. Studies of the social origin of elites need classifications different from those for such origins of school leavers or of workers. Two proposals were made for such a classification: by the International Labour Office and by a group of social historians in the 1980's in German (c.f. R. Schuren, Soziale Mobilitat, St. Katharinen 1989, pp. 313-361). A group of European European emanating from or pertaining to Europe. European bat lyssavirus see lyssavirus. European beech tree fagussylvaticus. European blastomycosis see cryptococcosis. social historians and sociologists now publishes a further proposal of classification, which is called the HISCO-classification. It is based on studies of the long 19th century in eight Western and Northern European countries and in Canada. The proposal has various advantages. It integrates about 1000 occupational titles and, hence, is a highly differentiated international classification which can well be used also for international comparison. Moreover occupational titles in five other languages, in French, German, Dutch, Norwegian Norwegian associated in some way with Norway. Norwegian buhund, Norwegian sheepdog a medium-sized (26-40 lb), spitz-type dog with a short, dense coat in wheaten, black, red or sable, sometimes with black markings on the face, ears and Swedish, are related to this English classification. In fact this is also a sort of multilingual mul·ti·lin·gual adj. 1. Of, including, or expressed in several languages: a multilingual dictionary. 2. dictionary for occupational titles. The book contains four separate classifications: the major classification for occupational titles, and further classifications for status titles, for titles on temporary activities, and for sectors of activities. Hence, the book does not try what the earlier proposal attempted: to put forward a combined classification for occupations, for education and for the status of economic independence. On the whole this is a very helpful instrument for a classification which can be adapted to the specific needs of a large variety of individual studies. Hartmut Kaelble Humboldt University |
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