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The Contexts of Social Mobility - Ideology and Theory (Hardcover)
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The Contexts of Social Mobility - Ideology and Theory (Hardcover)
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This book contains a major statement by one of America's most
preeminent sociologists on what remains an important problem in
American history and social analysis: the nature and extent of
movement within American society from one status to another. The
most important images of mobility involve self-improvement by
changing location (going to the frontier, coming to the big city),
and by changing social class (second-generation immigrants). Almost
all sociological and historical analysis has been limited to these
themes. Strauss extends the concept to a wide range of ideologies,
institutional contexts, and social movements; his analysis is based
on a formal theory of status passage and develops a partial theory
of mobility. Strauss addresses a theme that underscores much of one
strand of his work: the changing articulation of individuals with
their social structure and institutions. The book follows on from
the theoretical presuppositions of Discovery of Grounded Theory and
the formal theory presented in Status Passage. Strauss was
continually concerned with American social and intellectual life in
its historical and contemporary manifestations. No one else has
looked at the important phenomenon of mobility in this broad a
context and from this point of view. The book remains important to
those concerned with the social history of America and with
problems of social change.
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