The development of concepts of social inequity and the understanding of occupational prestige is a significant aspect of children's and adolescents' economic socialization. This socially transmitted knowledge base is subject to values and norms of the socializing institutions (family, school). It is argued that the perception and judgment of occupational prestige are in part shaped by the social position of the perceiver. The empirical section of this article presents prestige judgments of East and West Berlin adolescents from lower and middle social backgrounds. In line with hypotheses, judgments significantly differ from measures obtained by cross-societal aggregation and vary with different social origin. © 2006 by Verlag Hans Huber, Hogrefe AG.
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