  Research on social stratification is closely linked to analysing the prestige
associated with different occupations. This research focuses on the positions
of occupations in the semantic space represented by large amounts of textual
data. The results are compared to standard results in social stratification to
see whether the classical results are reproduced and if additional insights can
be gained into the social positions of occupations. The paper gives an
affirmative answer to both questions. The results show fundamental similarity
of the occupational structure obtained from text analysis to the structure
described by prestige and social distance scales. While our research reinforces
many theories and empirical findings of the traditional body of literature on
social stratification and, in particular, occupational hierarchy, it pointed to
the importance of a factor not discussed in the main line of stratification
literature so far: the power and organizational aspect.
