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
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Description based on 2nd printing, 2009
"Originally published in 1997 by Oxford University Press."--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
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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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