Pathways to Social Class
A Qualitative Approach to Social Mobility
1st Edition
Published on 29. November 2017
Book
Hardback
344 pages
978-1-138-52960-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
652 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-52960-1 (9781138529601)
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Persons
Daniel Bertaux, Paul Thompson
Content
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