Mobility in Britain Reconsidered.

Abstract

This is the second of two volumes reporting the results of work undertaken by a group of Oxford sociologists in preparation for a national survey of occupational change in England and Wales. Methodological issues are again discussed; the scaling of occupational status and the analysis of change patterns of stratification are examples. Many supplementary findings are also reported, derived from a reanalysis of the 1949 survey of social mobility conducted'by D.V. Glass. The emphasis is on the effects of family and schooling on people's job-chances; how big these effects are, how they are produced, and how we can measure changes in them. Paper covers ?1.65 Oxford Studies in Social Mobility