Study on Ordination and Changes of the Occupational Prestige Since the Reform and Opening-up

The occupational prestige is the subjective dimension of the social stratification, and it is important to study the social structure and its changes. Directed by the Max Weber' social stratification theory, according to the data from the network investigation, the paper sorted every occupational prestige independently from three dimensions, which are political status, economic status and social status, and sorted them with comprehensive sorting. Through the comparison of the three periods of the occupational prestige sorting, we found that occupations in bureaucracy are at the top of the occupational hierarchy, and the advantage of traditional occupations is no longer in existence. Meanwhile literary occupations showed an inconsistent status with low political, social status and a high economic status. Prestige evaluation of high knowledge occupations has declined, and along with the continuing of the reform and opening up, China's occupational prestige ranking tends to be stable.