Daniel Bertaux, Paul Thompson

Pathways to Social Class

A Qualitative Approach to Social Mobility

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis; Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 501g
• ISBN-13: 9781412806138
• ISBN-10: 1412806135
• Artikelnr.: 22258421

Autorenporträt

Daniel Bertaux, Paul Thompson

Inhaltsangabe

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