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

Social Mobility in the 20th Century Class Mobility and Occupational Change in the United States and Germany / by Florian R. Hertel.

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: eBook
Language:English
Published: Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer VS, 2017.
Edition:1st ed. 2017.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Demography.
Industrial sociology.
Electronic resources (E-books)
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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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