1st Edition

Social Mobility in Industrial Society

Edited By Seymour Lipset Copyright 1992
    342 Pages
    by Routledge

    332 Pages
    by Routledge

    In a careful analysis of the existing literature, the authors marshal an imposing array of evidence in support of their major argument that social mobility is an integral and continuing aspect of the process of industrialization. This classic volume continues to be a basic reference source in the field of occupational mobility.

    I: Introduction to the Original Edition; One: Social Mobility as a Characteristic of Societies; II: Social Mobility in Industrial Societies; III: Ideological EqualUarianism and Social Mobility in the United States; IV: Social Mobility and the American Business Elite; Two: Social Mobility in a Metropolitan Community; V: The Oakland Mobility Study; VI: Intra-generational Mobility; VII: Some Sources of Inter-generational Mobility; Three: Causes, Consequences and Dimensions of Social Mobility; VIII: Community Structure; IX: Intelligence and Motivation; X: Social Mobility and Social Structure; Intra-generational Mobility in Great Britain, Japan, and the United States

    Biography

    Seymour Lipset