This article is a review of issues associated with measuring occupations and using
occupation-based socio-economic classifications in social science research. The review is …

Building upon extensive research into modern British society, this book traces out trends in
social mobility and their relation to educational inequalities, with surprising results. Contrary …

How empirical researchers measure socio-economic position is of great consequence for
the understanding of different aspects of the stratification order and affects our conclusions …

John Goldthorpe is one of Britain's most eminent sociologists and a strong advocate of
quantitative sociology. In this concise and accessible book, he provides a new rationale for …

This contribution provides a long-term assessment of intergenerational social mobility trends
in the United States across the 20th and early 21st centuries and assesses the determinants …

Although stratification research has long recognized the importance of mapping out the
underlying boundaries that govern the flow of workers in the labor market, the current …

In this article, we address two inter-related questions. Are there gender differences in the
level and the pattern of intergenerational class mobility? If so, do these differences show up …

The authors use administrative data linked to parish records from northern Sweden to study
how persistent inequality is across multiple generations in education, occupation, and …

Occupational structure is commonly viewed as either hierarchical or organized around
stable classes. Yet, recent studies have proposed to describe occupational structure as a …

The relationship between class and political engagement in the United States is well‐
established: people with lower incomes, who have less education, or who work outside the …