Social Mobility and Class Structure in Modern Britain
Author: John H. Goldthorpe
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 326
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John H. Goldthorpe
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 326
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Gordon Marshall
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-08-10
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 1134858930
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The book incorporates three alternative conceptions of class. Erik Olin Wright's structural Marxist account is set alongside John Goldthorpe's occupational class schema, and the Registrar-General's prestige and skill-related categories. The authors use their unique data on inequality and conflict in contemporary Britain to provide, for the first time, a rigourous comparison of Marxist, sociological and official class frameworks. The book ranges widely across such topics as sectionalism in the workforce; privatism of families and individuals; fatalism; gender and class processes; sectoral production and consumption cleavages. The authors conclude that class is still crucial in structuring economic, political and social life.
Author: E. A. Johns
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2016-01-26
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 1483147541
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Social Structure of Modern Britain, Third Edition is a comprehensive account of the social structure of modern Britain. Aspects of social structure are examined from a historical and comparative perspective. The book includes statistical information, not only on the more obvious areas like births, deaths, and immigration, but also on such lesser known (but no less important) topics as leisure behavior, income and wealth, and trends in criminal and other deviant activities. Comprised of six chapters, this book begins with an introduction to the demographic features of British society, including population trends in the twentieth century, socio-economic aspects of population, and fertility and mortality trends, along with the effects of immigration on demography. Subsequent chapters focus on the family, social class, and education as well as leisure and pleasure. The final chapter is devoted to three major mechanisms of social control in British society: religion, political institutions, and law enforcement. In particular, it assesses the extent to which religious beliefs and political attitudes exert control over people's thoughts and behavior, together with the definition of crime, the causes of criminal behavior, and the aims of a penal system. This monograph will be a useful resource for sociologists and social scientists.
Author: Erzsébet Bukodi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-12-13
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 110867237X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Building upon extensive research into modern British society, this book traces out trends in social mobility and their relation to educational inequalities, with surprising results. Contrary to what is widely supposed, Bukodi and Goldthorpe's findings show there has been no overall decline in social mobility – though downward mobility is tending to rise and upward mobility to fall - and Britain is not a distinctively low mobility society. However, the inequalities of mobility chances among individuals, in relation to their social origins, have not been reduced and remain in some respects extreme. Exposing the widespread misconceptions that prevail in political and policy circles, this book shows that educational policy alone cannot break the link between inequality of condition and inequality of opportunity. It will appeal to students, researchers, policy makers, and anyone interested in the issues surrounding social inequality, social mobility and education.
Author: D.V. Glass
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-08-21
Total Pages: 421
ISBN-13: 113624493X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is Volume XVI of twenty-one in a series on Race, Class and Social Structure. Originally published in 1954, this study looks at social mobility in Great Britain; including social grading of occupations, social stratification, a sample and the educational experience of adults in England and Wales as of July 1949.
Author: Anthony Francis Heath
Publisher: Fontana Press
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 312
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Analyse van de gelaagdheid van de Britse samenleving sinds 1945 en vooral van de factoren die de sociale stijgingskansen hebben bevorderd
Author: Erzsébet Bukodi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-12-13
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 1108474969
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A comprehensive examination of social mobility and education in Britain that exposes the prevailing misconception in political and policy circles of social mobility in decline. For students, researchers, policymakers, and anyone interested in the issues surrounding social inequality, social mobility and education.
Author: John H. Goldthorpe
Publisher: Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 406
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The second edition of this classic study includes an analysis of recent trends in intergenerational mobility, the class mobility of women, and social mobility in modern Britain.