The State of Occupational Stratification Studies in Argentina

A Classificatory Scheme

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2747079
AutoresMark D Szuchman (The University of Texas at Austin), Eugene F Sofer (University of California, Los Angeles)
Año1976
Volumen11
Número1
Páginas159-172
Fecha de publicación1976-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLatin American Research Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0023-8791 • E-ISSN: 1542-4278
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0023879100026625
OpenAlexW4312242290
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas9

Research in social mobility in postcolonial Argentina has not benefitted from the sweeping changes in methodology and content found in histories of other periods and areas. The question of social mobility receives close attention in these studies partly because it offers such a variety of research opportunities and is measurable in several forms. Usually, the laboratory for these recent studies is the city-the place with the greatest opportunities for self-improvement. Since the nineteenth century, the city has become the locus of concentration for countless native and foreign migrants. With the appropriate data, urban social historians have investigated their spatial and economic dimensions of mobility. In addition, one of the bases of social change most often studied is the shifting within the occupational structure. The ties between occupation and social ranking are intimate. "Thus," writes Michael Katz, "to trace the movements of a man from occupation to occupation is, to a considerable extent, to trace his vertical movement within social space; the sum of those movements determines the patterns and rate of social mobility, the degree of openness, within a society

Economic geography · Geography · Openness to experience · Political science · Social mobility · Social science · Social stratification · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · State (computer science) · TRACE (psycholinguistics) · Variety (cybernetics) · Latin American rural development · Latin American socio-political dynamics · Psychology · Social Psychology