Social Mobility in the 20th Century : Class Mobility and Occupational Change in the United States and Germany

Based on a novel class scheme and a unique compilation of German and American data, this book reveals that intergenerational class mobility increased over most of the past century. While country differences in intergenerational mobility are surprisingly small, gender, regional, racial and ethnic dif...

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Main Author Hertel, Florian R. (Author)
Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer VS, 2017.
Subjects
Social sciences.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Industrial sociology.
Demography.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783658147853
DOI10.1007/978-3-658-14785-3
Physical DescriptionXII, 391 p. 52 illus. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • Development of an historical account to explain change in social mobility
  • Critical review of the main conceptualizations of social stratification
  • Conceptualization, test and application of a new class scheme
  • In-depth analysis of absolute and relative mobility in Germany and the U.S.
  • Comparison of social mobility chances in the U.S. and Germany. .

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