This essay is designed to develop a series of concepts which I believe to be helpful in the
understanding of socio-economic mobility, and, in particular, the problems associatedwith …

The article presents several comments by the authors in response to the book" The
American Occupational Structure," by Peter M. Blau and O. Dudley Duncan. According to …

T HIS paper describes patterns of occupational mobility for men in selected pro-fessional
statuses. The data are for 654 sample cases of white males 25 years old and over in the four …

The Process of Stratification: Trends and Analyses discusses the conceptual scheme
developed by Blau and Duncan. The book elaborates Blau and Duncan's description and …

The aim of this essay is to provide a synthesis of empirical and theoretical research in an
area that is a point of convergence for much of the literature on social stratification …

The partitioning of the national labor market along a number of dimensions has recently
been a topic of considerable interest. Less attention has been directed to the segmentation …

The main topics considered are mobility of people in the United States in general and of
people in redevelopment areas in particular. The data were collected in personal interviews …

Classes are held to have specific relations to labor and commodity markets, and these
relations are thought to constrain the mobility chances of their members. Classes are also …

The research during the last two decades on the factors affecting the occupational,
industrial, and geographic mobility of labor is summarized and appraised. The appraisal is …

The article critically discusses the two main uses of the concept of class in recent
stratification research. They are John Goldthorpe's analysis of social mobility from a class …