SOCIAL MOBILITY AND CLASS STRUCTURE. By Gosta Carlsson. Lund, Sweden: C W K Gleerup, 1958. 197 pp

Social Forces ◽  
1960 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 284-285
Author(s):  
C. B. Nam
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
Class Structure

Peruvian Social Mobility: Revolutionary and Developmental Potential

1968 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 547-570 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Chaplin
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
Class Structure ◽  
Social Revolution ◽  
Free Enterprise ◽  
Developmental Potential ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Price Structure ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
Resource Endowment ◽  
Transitional Type

While Peru's economic development is highly influenced by its resource endowment and the price structure of its exports, the style of industrialization will be determined in large part by the type and amount of social mobility its class structure permits. Although similar ethnically to Guatemala and Bolivia, Peru so far has managed to forestall a basic social revolution and has developed under one of the most private “free enterprise” regimes in Latin America. It should therefore be interesting to examine the type of class structure and social mobility that underlies this stage of development.In terms of a model of the process of industrialization, I shall emphasize the distinctive features of the transitional stage. It seems that a folk-urban, traditional-modern dichotomy—or even a transitional type that is merely halfway between these extremes—is not adequate.

The Role of Education in the Social Mobility of Dutch Cohorts, 1908–74

2020 ◽  
pp. 173-195
Author(s):  
Richard Breen ◽  
Ruud Luijkx ◽  
Eline Berkers
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Class Structure ◽  
Service Class ◽  
Birth Cohorts ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Fluidity

The Netherlands is well known for a sustained and marked trend towards greater social fluidity during the twentieth century. This chapter investigates trends in mobility across birth cohorts of Dutch men and women born in the first three-quarters of the twentieth century. During this time there was also a rapid upgrading of the Dutch class structure and marked expansion of the educational. But education played only a limited role in driving the increase in social fluidity: rather it was due mostly to the growing shares of people from nonservice-class origins who lacked a tertiary qualification but nevertheless moved into service-class destinations. An oversupply of service-class positions, relative to the share of people with a tertiary qualification, allowed less-qualified men and women from less-advantaged class backgrounds to be upwardly mobile.

The Formation of a Social Class Structure: Urbanization, Bureaucratization and Social Mobility in Thailand

1966 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 100-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans-Dieter Evers
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Political Power ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Class Structure ◽  
Urban Centre ◽  
Class System

AbstractUrbanization and bureaucratization are usually connected with a high rate of social mobility in western industrialized societies. In Thailand, however, mobility has declined at least between certain strata of Thai society following the consolidation of a bureaucratic elite in the expanding urban centre of Bangkok. The growing size, the monopolization of certain status symbols, the development of a distinct subculture and the concentration of economic and political power are indications that the bureaucratic elite is developing into a social class. It is therefore concluded that urbanization and bureaucratization in formerly loosely structured societies may lead to the formation of a class system and to a temporary decline of social mobility.

Class Structure & Social Mobility in Poland

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazimierz M. Slomczynski ◽  
Tadeusz K. Krauze
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
Class Structure

scholarly journals Dealignment: Class in Britain and Class in British Sociology Since 1945

Societies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 79
Author(s):  
Ken Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
Class Structure ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Relative Neglect ◽  
Standard Template ◽  
Trends Over Time ◽  
Constant Class ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Over Time

This paper sets changes in Britain’s class structure since 1945 alongside the parallel sociological controversies about class. Since the 1970s, the class scheme developed by John Goldthorpe and colleagues for initial use in their study of social mobility in Britain has become sociology’s standard template for thinking about and researching class. Versions have been adopted by the UK government and the European Union as their official socio-economic classifications. This paper does not dispute that the Goldthorpe scheme is still the best available for classifying by occupation, or that occupation remains our best single indicator of class, or that a constant class scheme must be used if the purpose is to measure trends over time in rates of relative inter-generational mobility. Despite these merits, it is argued that the sociological gaze has been weakened by failing to represent changes over time in the class structure itself and, therefore, how class is experienced in lay people’s lives. There has been a relative neglect of absolute social mobility flows (which have changed over time), and a pre-occupation with the inter-generational and a relative neglect of intra-career mobilities and immobilities.

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