1. TOWARD COMPARABLE DATA ON INEQUALITY AND STRATIFICATION: PERSPECTIVES ON THE SECOND GENERATION OF NATIONAL MOBILITY STUDIES.
- Author
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Featherman, David L.
- Subjects
SOCIOLOGICAL research ,SOCIAL classes ,OCCUPATIONAL mobility ,SOCIOLOGISTS - Abstract
The article discusses that in the early 1950's a research committee within the International Sociological Association (ISA) was formed around the topics of social stratification and mobility. An important impetus to this convocation of international interests was the dearth of empirical studies of occupational mobility in the industrialized and industrializing nations of the world by which to assess sociological speculations regarding the interplay of cultural values, economic development, and changes in institutionalized inequalities and social stratification. Subsequent parametric estimates of mobility in Italy, the United States, and Australia were published by Lopreato (1965), Blau and Duncan (1967) and Broom and Jones (1969) respectively. Now, a second generation of national mobility studies is underway, with some already out of the field and others well under plan. Owing to interim developments within the discipline, these second generation studies promise greater comparability of data and clearer insights into comparative sociological processes than did the first generation.
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- 1974