1. Vertical mobility and class inheritance in the British Isles.
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Breen, Richard and Whelan, Christopher T.
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SOCIAL classes , *UPWARD mobility (Social sciences) , *SOCIOLOGY , *SOCIAL history ,SOCIAL conditions in England - Abstract
This paper compares vertical mobility in Dublin and England and Wales as displayed in mobility tables using the seven class categories developed by Goldthorpe (1980). A model is developed which demonstrates the pattern of vertical mobility in each country and also allows us to measure the extent of class inheritance as distinct from class self-recruitment. The data are used to test the FJH thesis, and some differences between Dublin and England and Wales — in their degree of ‘openness’ and in the relative standings of the different classes — are examined. Patterns of relative mobility are found to differ quite strongly between the two with Dublin being considerably less open than England and Wales. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1985
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