Pathways to Social Class: A Qualitative Approach to Social Mobility

by Daniel Bertaux, Paul Thompson

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138529601
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/29/2017
Pages:	344
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Daniel Bertaux, Paul Thompson

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

Editorial Reviews

"Especially for those American social scientists used to thinking of mobility studies as sophisticated statistical analyses of large numbers of variables in massive national data sets, the eights studies included here are themselves refreshing and unusual in their approach and specific subject matter...The richness of the details in the family chronicles suggests new information for the content of mobility theories and a new agenda for mobility studies."—Social Forces

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