Mobility Tables / Edition 1

by Michael Hout

Overview

Explains the most widely used methods for analyzing cross-classified data on occupational origins and destinations. Hout reviews classic definitions, models, and sources of mobility data, as well as elementary operations for analyzing mobility tables. Tabular and graphic displays illustrate the discussion throughout.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803920569
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	04/01/1983
Series:	Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences , #31
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.23(d)

About the Author

Mike Hout holds the Natalie Cohen Sociology Chair. He teaches courses on inequality, data analysis, and population. In his research, Mike uses demographic methods to study social change in inequality, religion, and politics. In 2006, Mike and Claude Fischer published Century of Difference, a book on twentieth-century social and cultural trends in the United States, that exemplifies this approach. Another book, The Truth about Conservative Christians with Andrew Greeley (University of Chicago Press, 2006) is another example. A couple of illustrative papers include "How Class Works: Subjective Aspects of Class Since the 1970s" in a book edited by Annette Lareau and Dalton Conley (Russell Sage Foundation 2008), "The Demographic Imperative in Religious Change" (Am. J. of Soc., Sept. 2001) and "How 4 Million Irish Immigrants Came to be 40 Million Irish Americans" (with Josh Goldstein, Am. Soc. Rev., April 1994). Previous books are: Following in Father's Footsteps: Social Mobility in Ireland (Harvard Univ. Press 1989) and, with five Berkeley colleagues, Inequality by Design (Princeton Univ. Press, 1996). Mike Hout's honors include election to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 1997, the National Academy of Sciences in 2003, and the American Philosophical Society in 2006. Mike currently chairs the Graduate Group in Sociology and Demography and the Berkeley Population Center. Mike's education includes a bachelor's degree from the University of Pittsburgh in history and sociology and masters and doctorate from Indiana University in sociology. He taught at the University of Arizona before coming to Berkeley in 1985.

Table of Contents

	Series Editor's Introduction	5
1.	Analyzing Mobility Tables	7
	The Basics	8
	Sources of Mobility Data	10
	Elementary Operations	11
	X[superscript 2] Tests Applied to the Mobility Table	13
	Odds Ratios	16
	Mobility Ratios	16
2.	Independence in Parts of the Table	18
	Quasi-Perfect Mobility Defined	19
	A Log-Linear Model of Quasi-Perfect Mobility	19
	Quasi-Perfect Mobility Results	21
	Barriers to Mobility at the Top and Bottom: The Corners Model	23
	Symmetrical Association	25
3.	Social Distance Models	27
	Constrained Diagonals Models	27
	Status Barriers and Crossings Parameters	31
	Mobility Models in Logit Form	34
4.	Topological Models	37
	The Featherman-Hauser Model of Mobility to First Occupations	38
	Issues in Revising Models: Fit and Parsimony	41
	Indeterminacy of Topological Models	46
5.	Scaled Models of Association	51
	Uniform Association	52
	Generalizations of Uniform Association	54
	Model II	56
	Analysis of Association in the U.S. Data	58
	Analysis of Association with the Diagonal Deleted	60
	Similar Parameters Under Different Models	63
	Equivalent Models--Reprise	66
	A Comparison of Mobility in Britain and Denmark	66
6.	New Developments	68
	Latent Structures of Mobility	69
	Inferring Class Structure from Mobility Patterns	72
	Status, Autonomy, and Training in Occupational Mobility	76
7.	Applications of Mobility Tables to Family and Religion	80
	Occupations of Husbands and Wives	80
	Religious Assortative Marriage	82
	Religious Socialization	85
8.	Conclusion	87
	References	88
	About the Author	93