The constant flux : a study of class mobility in industrial societies
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The constant flux : a study of class mobility in industrial societies
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, c1992
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Bibliography: p. [399]-422
Includes indexes
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Description
This is a study of social mobility within the developing class structures of modern industrial societies based on a data-set constructed by John Goldthorpe and Robert Erikson. The focus is on the experience of European nations - western and eastern - in the period of the "long boom" following World War II; but the book also devotes separate chapters to examining the experience of the USA, Australia, and Japan. The authors combine historical and statistical approaches in their analysis of both trends in mobility and of cross-national similarities and differences. They show that wide variation at the level of actually observed mobility co-exists with a surprising degree of constancy and commonality in underlying patterns of social fluidity. The empirical results of their study serve as the basis for a critical re-examination of current theories of mobility and for raising more general issues of the proper concerns and methods of comparative macro-sociology.
Table of Contents
- Industrial society and social mobility
- concepts, data and strategies of inquiry
- trends in class mobility
- the moving average graduation method, Jan M. Hoem
- social fluidity within class structures - modelling the FJH hypothesis, commonality and variation
- comparing cell interaction parameters under different versions of the core model
- absolute rates of class mobility
- partitioning variance in logged odds between expected cell values
- the class mobility of women
- worklife and intergenerational class mobility
- non-European cases - the USA and Australia, Japan
- conclusions and prospects.
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