Pathways to social class : a qualitative approach to social mobility
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Pathways to social class : a qualitative approach to social mobility
Transaction Publishers, 2007
Available at 3 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Description based on 2nd printing, 2009
"Originally published in 1997 by Oxford University Press."--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Calling for a broader, new approach to social mobility research, Pathways to Social Class: A Qualitative Approach to Social Mobility moves beyond pure statistics to use qualitative techniques-such as life stories and family case studies-to examine more closely the dynamics of mobility and address more fundamental sociological questions.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 2: Women, Men, and Transgenerational Family Influences in Social Mobility
- 3: Heritage and its Lineage: A Case History of Transmission and Social Mobility over Five Generations
- 4: Shadow and Reality in Occupational History: Britain in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
- 5: The Familial Meaning of Housing in Social Rootedness and Mobility: Britain and France
- 6: The Local World View: Social Change and Memory in Three Tuscan Communes
- 7: Migration, Mobility, and Social Process: Scottish Migrants in Canada
- 8: Transmission in Extreme Situations: Russian Families Expropriated by the October Revolution
- 9: Social Mobility in Hungary since the Second World War: Interpretations through Surveys and through Family Histories
- 10: Social Mobility and the Survey Method: A Critical Analysis
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