Research Catalog

Title

Pathways to social class : a qualitative approach to social mobility / Daniel Bertaux and Paul Thompson ; with contributions by Rudolf Andorka [and others].

Author

Bertaux, Daniel.

Publication

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.

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Additional Authors

Thompson, Paul, 1935-

Description

ix, 334 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

• Calling for a broader, new approach to social mobility research, Daniel Bertaux and Paul Thompson here move 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.
• Up to now, the extensive sociological literature on mobility has been based around the survey method. As a result, we have access to abundant statistical data, but there is little information available to explain how and why people follow particular life paths. To overcome these limitations, the authors have developed an alternative, complementary approach using life stories, case histories of whole families over several generations, or case studies of local communities. Employing the case-study approach does not prevent the identification of structural trends; on the contrary, it allows us to analyse those collective processes through their local effects, restoring the links with the classics of sociological thought.

Subject

• Social classes
• Social mobility
• Social Class
• Social Mobility
• social classes
• social mobility
• Social classes
• Social mobility
• Soziale Klasse
• Soziale Mobilität
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Sociale klassen
• Sociale mobiliteit
• Kwalitatieve methoden
• Longitudinaal onderzoek
• Qualitative research

Genre/Form

Aufsatzsammlung.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Women, men, and transgenerational family influences in social mobilty / Paul Thompson -- Heritage and its lineage : a case history of transmission and social mobility over five generations / Daniel Bertaux and Isabelle Bertaux-Wiame -- Shadow and reality in occupational history : Britain in the first half of the twentieth century / David Vincent -- The familial meaning of housing in social rootedness and mobility : Britain and France / Isabelle Bertaux-Wiame and Paul Thompson -- The local world view : social change and memory in three Tuscan communes / Giovanni Contini -- Migration, mobility, and social process : Scottish migrants in Canada / Brian Elliott -- Transmission in extreme situations : Russian families expropriated by the October Revolution / Daniel Bertaux -- Social mobility in Hungary since the Second World War : interpretations through surveys and through families histories / Rudolf Andorka -- Social mobility and the survey method : a critical analysis / Mike Savage.

ISBN

• 0198279310
• 9780198279310

LCCN

96026405

OCLC

• ocm35016708
• 35016708
• SCSB-14662875

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library