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Zachary Neal @zpneal.bsky.social · 7d

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Dave Griffiths @drdavegriffiths.bsky.social · 14d

Asking 'Who is the Prime Minister?' used to be good as a test of people's memory. It now seems it works better as a test of people's occupation. If they reply 'I think it's Nigel Farage' you know they work in journalism.

Dave Griffiths @drdavegriffiths.bsky.social · Jun 25

Social capital, interconnected with the tight-knit bonds within marginalised groups, could deter help-seeking. Knowledge and attitudes towards help and help-seeking, shaped by past experiences and network cultures, influenced help-seeking and contributed to a cautious and selective approach.
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Dave Griffiths @drdavegriffiths.bsky.social · Jun 25

Social/relational influences identified included: fear of losing social capital, the risks of high bonding capital, service providers as social capital, selective help-seeking, trust and network culture.
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Dave Griffiths @drdavegriffiths.bsky.social · Jun 25

Paper reviews the 27 papers around mental health/substance use help-seeking by adults experiencing (non-demographic) marginalisation and used social capital or social network analysis (#SNA)
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Dave Griffiths @drdavegriffiths.bsky.social · Jun 25

New paper out on 'Relational influences on help-seeking for mental health and substance use problems among people experiencing social marginalisation: a scoping review' with @drcconnell.bsky.social @kjellgren.bsky.social & Jessica Greenhalgh
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Relational influences on help-seeking for mental health and substance use problems among people experiencing social marginalisation: a scoping review

Objectives Understand the relational influences on help-seeking for mental health and substance use problems among people experiencing social marginalisation, with a focus on research applying social ...

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Dr C Connell @drcconnell.bsky.social · Jun 5

Pleased our paper is out today: relational influences on help-seeking for mental health and substance use among marginalised people bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/6/e090349.full

We present follow on research with justice-involved ppl @ DRNS conference later @drnscot.bsky.social

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Dave Griffiths @drdavegriffiths.bsky.social · May 20

Congratulations. Well done.

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Zachary Neal @zpneal.bsky.social · May 13

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"𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐦 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬"

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · May 16

And secondly, Research Fellow in Evidence Review and Synthesis of Community Interventions
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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · May 16

A coupe of exciting research jobs being advertised for the Centre for Collaboration on Community Connectedness I'm involved in, first off Researcher in Evidence Review and synthesis of community interventions:
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Dave Griffiths @drdavegriffiths.bsky.social · May 14

Here's a good one from Danielle Pillet-Shore.
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Peer conversation about substance (mis)use

What happens when a friend starts talking about her own substance use and misuse? This article provides the first investigation of how substance use is spontaneously topicalized in naturally occurrin...

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Dave Griffiths @drdavegriffiths.bsky.social · May 14

They are great to use in teaching. Students like hearing the author discuss the paper and it improves the flow of a lecture as well.

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Hannah Graham @drhannahgraham.bsky.social · May 8

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Dave Griffiths @drdavegriffiths.bsky.social · May 12

Overall, the book brings together ideas from social stratification, social network analysis and social inequalities to argue that looking at the occupations of pairs of individuals (such as partners, or friends) can aid our understanding of important social processes. (14/14)

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Dave Griffiths @drdavegriffiths.bsky.social · May 12

(12) Conclusion argues that effects of homophily around social stratification position are important in the reproduction of inequality (13/14)

Text: "We called the social ties that connect occupations a 'social resin', because this metaphor suggests a powerful force that shapes structure, whilst nevertheless exhibiting some malleability. Empirical patterns in social connections are consistent with a circular and mutually reinforcing relationship between social connections and occupational inequalities - that is, occupational inequalities foster social connection patterns, and social interactions foster occupational outcomes, as suggested by the two quotes above. But in what way, if at all, is the 'social resin' - the powerful empirical relationship between social interaction patterns, and social stratification systems - of importance in theorising social stratification and social reproduction?

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Dave Griffiths @drdavegriffiths.bsky.social · May 12

(11) Exploiting Non-standard Dimension Scores and Network Structures in the Analysis of Social Interactions Between Occupations looks at other forms of homophily in people's connections and breaks down the analysis to explore differences between subgroups (12/14)

Network of over-represented occupational combinations in the UK, by age group. Much more cases for the males 20-40 than for males over 40.

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Dave Griffiths @drdavegriffiths.bsky.social · May 12

(10) Social Interactions and Educational Inequality provides an intersectional approach to examing the role of education in occupational stratification (11/14)

Visualisation of the SID solution for the analysis of combined categories of occupation and education. Within social classes, people with higher qualifications always have more advantaged positions than people with lesser qualifications in the same class. Graduates in elementary occupations have higher scores than professionals with no school qualifications. Educational dimension important for understanding stratification structure.

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Dave Griffiths @drdavegriffiths.bsky.social · May 12

(9) Occupational-Level Residuals and Distributional Parameters explores other meaningful approaches using pairs of occupations, including random effects modelling (10/14)

A graph of the job-level residuals for predicting level of contact with closest friends in the UK from 1991-2008 (BHPS data)

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Dave Griffiths @drdavegriffiths.bsky.social · May 12

(8) Social Network Analysis of Occupational Connections converts those occupations which are commonly linked into a network to explore how stratification patterns can be observed and meaningfully compared (9/14)

A sociogram connecting occupations which marry each other more often than we would expect by chance in Texas in 2000.

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Dave Griffiths @drdavegriffiths.bsky.social · May 12

(7) Networked Occupations looks at which occupations tend to connect more often than we would imagine if randomly distributed - this shows the effect of stratification in a slightly different way to Social Interaction Distance approaches (8/14)

Table showing the most common combinations of marriages amongst heterosexual couples in the USA in 2000. They are: male truck drivers married to female secretaries, primary school teachers, nurses and accounts clerks; and male retail supervisors married to secretaries. Despite being common, truck drivers marry secretaries, primary school teachers and nurses less than we would expect given the proportions of those groups in society.

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Dave Griffiths @drdavegriffiths.bsky.social · May 12

(6) Constructing CAMSIS Scales provides the recipe (and #Stata syntax) for creating a scheme from data on pairs of occupations, managing the data and dealing with pseudo-diagonals (pairings which do not reflect the stratification structure) (7/14)

Graph showing three dimensions of a correspondence analysis.

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Dave Griffiths @drdavegriffiths.bsky.social · May 12

(5) Evaluating CAMSIS scales explores the characteristics of #CAMSIS (and #HISCAM) schemes between countries, drawing on consistencies we commonly see, and how differences often uncover important contours of that society (6/14)

Graph of male and female CAMSIS scores across 12 different societies, showing they are broadly similar to each other in the shape of their distribution.

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Dave Griffiths @drdavegriffiths.bsky.social · May 12

(4) #CAMSIS and the Analysis of Social Interaction Distance provides the theoretical underpinning of how studying combinations of occupations can produce a valid and nuanced stratification scheme of the position of each individual occupation (5/14)

Graph showing relationship between the CAMSIS and SIOPS occupational measures, which are highly correlated but with individual occupational unit groups often higher on one than the other.

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Dave Griffiths @drdavegriffiths.bsky.social · May 12

(3) Measures of Social Stratification provides an overview of ways of measuring stratification, exploring the different forms of occupational, social class, geographical, income and #GBCS style approaches (4/14)

Table of fictional people all earning £1,500 per month. The expendable income of a retired person with no mortgage is much, much higher than a single parent dental assistant, who has mortgage, commuting, childcare and child living expenses.

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