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Social Mobility in Europe (Hardcover)
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Social Mobility in Europe (Hardcover)
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Social Mobility in Europe is the most comprehensive study to date
of trends in intergenerational social mobility. It uses data from
11 European countries covering the last 30 years of the twentieth
century to analyze differences between countries and changes
through time.
The findings call into question several long-standing views about
social mobility. We find a growing similarity between countries in
their class structures and rates of absolute mobility: in other
words, the countries of Europe are now more alike in their flows
between class origins and destinations than they were thirty years
ago. However, differences between countries in social fluidity
(that is, the relative chances, between people of different class
origins, of being found in given class destinations) show no
reduction and so there is no evidence supporting theories of
modernization which predict such convergence. Our results also
contradict the long-standing Featherman Jones Hauser hypothesis of
a basic similarity in social fluidity in all industrial societies
'with a market economy and a nuclear family system'. There are
considerable differences between countries like Israel and Sweden,
where societal openness is very marked, and Italy, France, and
Germany, where social fluidity rates are low. Similarly, there is a
substantial difference between, for example, the Netherlands in the
1970s (which was quite closed) and in the 1990s, when it ranks
among the most open societies.
Mobility tables reflect many underlying processes and this makes it
difficult to explain mobility and fluidity or to provide policy
prescriptions. Nevertheless, those countries in which fluidity
increased over the last decades of the twentieth century had not
only succeeded in reducing class inequalities in educational
attainment but had also restricted the degree to which, among
people with the same level of education, class background affected
their chances of gaining access to better class destinations.
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