John H. Goldthorpe is an Emeritus Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford University. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a member of the Academia Europaea, and a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Table of Contents
Introduction to Volume II 1 Part I Class Analysis and the Reorientation of Class Theory: The Case of Persisting Differentials in Educational Attainment 21 Explaining Educational Differentials: Towards a Formal Rational Action Theory (with Richard Breen) 45 The Theory Evaluated: Commentaries and Research 73 Social Class and the Differentiation of Employment Contracts 101 Class Analysis: New Versions and Their Problems 125 Outline of a Theory of Social Mobility 154 Part II Sociology and the Probabilistic Revolution, 1830-1930: Explaining an Absent Synthesis 189 Statistics and the Theory of Social Action: Failures in the Integration of American Sociology, 1900-1960 228 Notes 259 Bibliography 301 Index 335