Keith Hope
Biographic Data
| ID | 3630632 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Keith Hope |
| GIVEN NAMES | Keith |
| FAMILY NAME | Hope |
| SIGNATURE | HOPE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 303 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Restructuring Britain: The Changing Social Structure
Meritocracy, Scottish Style
Uncovering the Pattern of Social Stratification: A Two-Year Test-Retest Inquiry
This is a report of the main findings of a reliability study carried out in association with the 1972 Oxford Social Mobility inquiry. The original sample consisted of some 10,000 men interviewed in England and Wales. The reliability study involved re-interviewing a representative 10 per cent of the sample after a lapse of two years. After initially exploring the reliability of occupation (position on the Hope-Goldthorpe scale) and distinguishing …
As Others See Us: Schooling and Social Mobility in Scotland and the United States
In comparing the educational systems of Scotland and the United States, Keith Hope argues that the Scottish selective system is more successful in advancing students on the basis of intelligence and merit than is the comprehensive American system. Based on some unique longitudinal data assembled between 1947 and 1964 by the Mental Survey Committee of the Scottish Council for Research in Education, his work offers definitions and models for assess…
Intergenerational and career mobility in Britain: An integrated analysis
Are High Schools Really Heteronomous
The question whether schools have may be rephrased as the question of the degree to which schools reflect the pattern of their inputs, and the degree to which they disrupt that pattern by their autonomous activity. In this paper a coefficient is employed to quantify the autonomous effects of schools, and its complement (which represents heteronomy, or the degree to which schools simply transmit the pattern of their inputs) is broken down into uni…
On Defining Normative Consistency: The Case of Sex-Stereotyping
Reanalysis of data on norms of role-assignment shows that between 1953 and 1976 mothers increasingly expressed the view that certain, traditionally sex-segregated, household tasks should be done by children of both sexes. Dividing the overall variance into variance due to substantive (attitudinal) effects and variance due to trends in attitude over time, we find that 61% of the trend variance is attributable to simple shift toward desegregation o…
Shorter Notices
Social Mobility
Vertical and Nonvertical Class Mobility in Three Countries
Classes are held to have specific relations to labor and commodity markets, and these relations are thought to constrain the mobility chances of their members. Classes are also held to be unequal, though not necessarily strictly ordered in a hierarchy of advantage. The theorist of class mobility should distinguish between movement attributable to closeness on a vertical dimension and movement (or lack of it) attributable to specific class relatio…
A Liberal Theory of Prestige
Earlier empirical and theoretical work showed that members of the public distinguish quite sharply between the rewards of an occupation and its value to society. The present paper argues that the perstige of occupations, as it is ordinarily graded, is a simple average of these two dimensions, implying that prestige has both a factual and a normative component. The argument is theoretical rather than inductive: it begins from the assumption that p…
The New Mobility Ratio
A new mobility ratio has been proposed as a way of dealing with the confounding between main and interaction terms which is inherent in the old mobility ratio. It is shown that the new ratio does not in fact succeed in this aim, that values of the ratio are highly dependent on the model fitted to account for interaction, and that criticisms of Blau and Duncan's conclusions about the mobility of American society, which derive from application of t…
Methods and Imagination
Quantitative analysis in sociology is a way of representing theories and, properly handled, its techniques may be employed to explore the relations between different theories. This is something which can be conveyed even to beginners by teaching them analysis by means of design matrices. Two examples are given, one an analysis of a table of means and the other a class analysis of a mobility table
The Inheritance of Inequality
Vertical Mobility in Britain: A Structured Analysis
Earlier work (Hope, 1974, 1975a) demonstrated 'no change' in social mobility between the Glass inquiry of 1949 and the Oxford inquiry of 1972. However the mobility investigated was that known as exchange mobility (other synonyms being pure, perfect, fluidity and circulation mobility), which is defined as departure of observed mobility from perfect mobility. When the man in the street speaks of mobility he usually means something much more specifi…
Developments in a Populist Paradigm
Occupational Prestige in Comparative Perspective
Diamonds are Trumps: A Reply to House
The General Household Survey 1974
Household surveys play a pivotal role in empirical economics. Cross-section and longitudinal surveys are regularly conducted throughout the globe. A description of survey design and sampling methods provides the foundation for discussing survey errors. These include errors associated with sampling, survey coverage and non response (which includes attrition from panel surveys) as well as errors of observation or measurement. In recent years, surve…
Measuring Occupational Inheritance. Thomas W. Pullum
The Misinterpretation of Path Analysis: Rejoinder to Allan's Reply
Crewe's Test of the Embourgeoisement Thesis
Ivor Crewe begins his paper on the affluent worker research by giving clear expression to a number of objections which may be brought against that work. He then goes on to make two tests of the embourgeoisement thesis which Goldthorpe, Lockwood and their colleagues called into question. This Note concerns itself with only one of the two tests, namely that based on correlations of residuals
The Social Grading of Occupations: A New Approach and Scale
Models of Status Inconsistency and Social Mobility Effects
The author draws out the conceptual implications of technical procedures which he employed in an published in this journal (Hope, 1971). He defends an earlier statement of status-inconsistency theory (Lenski, 1954; 1956) against attacks on its coherence, and he provides a model which accurately represents the theory (and an equivalent theory of mobility effects) and may be used to test it. By contrast with this diamond model, he shows that the us…
The Social Grading of Occupations. A New Approach and Scale
The authors have obtained popular assessments of the social standing of several hundred occupations and, by a novel application of sampling procedures, constructed a scale upon which the position of any employed male can be determined with a known degree of precision
Models of Status Inconsistency and Social Mobility Effects
The author draws out the conceptual implications of technical procedures which he employed in an published in this journal (Hope, 1971). He defends an earlier statement of status-inconsistency theory (Lenski, 1954; 1956) against attacks on its coherence, and he provides a model which accurately represents the theory (and an equivalent theory of mobility effects) and may be used to test it. By contrast with this diamond model, he shows that the us…
The General Household Survey 1974
Household surveys play a pivotal role in empirical economics. Cross-section and longitudinal surveys are regularly conducted throughout the globe. A description of survey design and sampling methods provides the foundation for discussing survey errors. These include errors associated with sampling, survey coverage and non response (which includes attrition from panel surveys) as well as errors of observation or measurement. In recent years, surve…
Social Mobility and Fertility
In several recent studies the effects of mobility or status inconsistency on a dependent variable have been quantified by means of an an additive model in which sets of constants have been fitted to two principles of classification. In examining a particular application of this model, the following paper begins by suggesting the possibility that the underlying hypothesis may be more adequately represented by a symmetrical model which fits one and…
Vertical and Nonvertical Class Mobility in Three Countries
Classes are held to have specific relations to labor and commodity markets, and these relations are thought to constrain the mobility chances of their members. Classes are also held to be unequal, though not necessarily strictly ordered in a hierarchy of advantage. The theorist of class mobility should distinguish between movement attributable to closeness on a vertical dimension and movement (or lack of it) attributable to specific class relatio…
The Analysis of Social Mobility: Methods and Approaches
Occupational grading and occupational prestige
A Liberal Theory of Prestige
Earlier empirical and theoretical work showed that members of the public distinguish quite sharply between the rewards of an occupation and its value to society. The present paper argues that the perstige of occupations, as it is ordinarily graded, is a simple average of these two dimensions, implying that prestige has both a factual and a normative component. The argument is theoretical rather than inductive: it begins from the assumption that p…
Vertical Mobility in Britain: A Structured Analysis
Earlier work (Hope, 1974, 1975a) demonstrated 'no change' in social mobility between the Glass inquiry of 1949 and the Oxford inquiry of 1972. However the mobility investigated was that known as exchange mobility (other synonyms being pure, perfect, fluidity and circulation mobility), which is defined as departure of observed mobility from perfect mobility. When the man in the street speaks of mobility he usually means something much more specifi…
Path Analysis: Supplementary Procedures
The first purpose of this paper is to indicate the circumstances in which path coefficients may be accepted as adequate guides to the relative importance of anterior (causal) variables in a path analysis. It is shown that weights in a regression equation may be regarded as indicators of importance, in the sense of determinants of proportions of variance, if the (projection of the) variate defined by the equation coincides with a principal compone…
Methods and Imagination
Quantitative analysis in sociology is a way of representing theories and, properly handled, its techniques may be employed to explore the relations between different theories. This is something which can be conveyed even to beginners by teaching them analysis by means of design matrices. Two examples are given, one an analysis of a table of means and the other a class analysis of a mobility table
Intergenerational and career mobility in Britain: An integrated analysis
The Interpretation of Path Coefficients
In his attack on my investigations of the method of path analysis Mr. Allan* commits a number of errors of logic which invalidate his criticisms. However, before describing these errors I wish to comment briefly on some of his more general observations. He says (note 7) 'It is as well to remember what we are doing when we examine a path analysis: we are trying to find reverse-operationalizations, i.e. what haue we really measured Allan may indeed…
Uncovering the Pattern of Social Stratification: A Two-Year Test-Retest Inquiry
This is a report of the main findings of a reliability study carried out in association with the 1972 Oxford Social Mobility inquiry. The original sample consisted of some 10,000 men interviewed in England and Wales. The reliability study involved re-interviewing a representative 10 per cent of the sample after a lapse of two years. After initially exploring the reliability of occupation (position on the Hope-Goldthorpe scale) and distinguishing …
On Defining Normative Consistency: The Case of Sex-Stereotyping
Reanalysis of data on norms of role-assignment shows that between 1953 and 1976 mothers increasingly expressed the view that certain, traditionally sex-segregated, household tasks should be done by children of both sexes. Dividing the overall variance into variance due to substantive (attitudinal) effects and variance due to trends in attitude over time, we find that 61% of the trend variance is attributable to simple shift toward desegregation o…
The Social Grading of Occupations. A New Approach and Scale
The authors have obtained popular assessments of the social standing of several hundred occupations and, by a novel application of sampling procedures, constructed a scale upon which the position of any employed male can be determined with a known degree of precision
Validation of the Maudsley Personality Inventory E Scale
The Maudsley Personality Inventory (MPI) E scale is validated by a direct method which has not hitherto been employed. It is shown that, in a neurotic sample, it measures a dimension of personality which has been called the hysteroid‐obsessoid dimension and is unrelated to type of illness
Social Mobility and Fertility
In several recent studies the effects of mobility or status inconsistency on a dependent variable have been quantified by means of an an additive model in which sets of constants have been fitted to two principles of classification. In examining a particular application of this model, the following paper begins by suggesting the possibility that the underlying hypothesis may be more adequately represented by a symmetrical model which fits one and…
Path Analysis: Supplementary Procedures
The first purpose of this paper is to indicate the circumstances in which path coefficients may be accepted as adequate guides to the relative importance of anterior (causal) variables in a path analysis. It is shown that weights in a regression equation may be regarded as indicators of importance, in the sense of determinants of proportions of variance, if the (projection of the) variate defined by the equation coincides with a principal compone…
The Multivariate Search for Hospital Efficiency: A preliminary examination of the problems, the data. and possible methods of analysis
The Analysis of Social Mobility: Methods and Approaches
Occupational grading and occupational prestige
Reply to Simpson
The Analysis of Social Mobility: Methods and Approaches
The Interpretation of Path Coefficients
In his attack on my investigations of the method of path analysis Mr. Allan* commits a number of errors of logic which invalidate his criticisms. However, before describing these errors I wish to comment briefly on some of his more general observations. He says (note 7) 'It is as well to remember what we are doing when we examine a path analysis: we are trying to find reverse-operationalizations, i.e. what haue we really measured Allan may indeed…
The Misinterpretation of Path Analysis: Rejoinder to Allan's Reply
Crewe's Test of the Embourgeoisement Thesis
Ivor Crewe begins his paper on the affluent worker research by giving clear expression to a number of objections which may be brought against that work. He then goes on to make two tests of the embourgeoisement thesis which Goldthorpe, Lockwood and their colleagues called into question. This Note concerns itself with only one of the two tests, namely that based on correlations of residuals
The Social Grading of Occupations: A New Approach and Scale
Models of Status Inconsistency and Social Mobility Effects
The author draws out the conceptual implications of technical procedures which he employed in an published in this journal (Hope, 1971). He defends an earlier statement of status-inconsistency theory (Lenski, 1954; 1956) against attacks on its coherence, and he provides a model which accurately represents the theory (and an equivalent theory of mobility effects) and may be used to test it. By contrast with this diamond model, he shows that the us…
The Social Grading of Occupations. A New Approach and Scale
The authors have obtained popular assessments of the social standing of several hundred occupations and, by a novel application of sampling procedures, constructed a scale upon which the position of any employed male can be determined with a known degree of precision
Measuring Occupational Inheritance. Thomas W. Pullum
Diamonds are Trumps: A Reply to House
The General Household Survey 1974
Household surveys play a pivotal role in empirical economics. Cross-section and longitudinal surveys are regularly conducted throughout the globe. A description of survey design and sampling methods provides the foundation for discussing survey errors. These include errors associated with sampling, survey coverage and non response (which includes attrition from panel surveys) as well as errors of observation or measurement. In recent years, surve…
Developments in a Populist Paradigm
Occupational Prestige in Comparative Perspective
The New Mobility Ratio
A new mobility ratio has been proposed as a way of dealing with the confounding between main and interaction terms which is inherent in the old mobility ratio. It is shown that the new ratio does not in fact succeed in this aim, that values of the ratio are highly dependent on the model fitted to account for interaction, and that criticisms of Blau and Duncan's conclusions about the mobility of American society, which derive from application of t…
Methods and Imagination
Quantitative analysis in sociology is a way of representing theories and, properly handled, its techniques may be employed to explore the relations between different theories. This is something which can be conveyed even to beginners by teaching them analysis by means of design matrices. Two examples are given, one an analysis of a table of means and the other a class analysis of a mobility table
The Inheritance of Inequality
Vertical Mobility in Britain: A Structured Analysis
Earlier work (Hope, 1974, 1975a) demonstrated 'no change' in social mobility between the Glass inquiry of 1949 and the Oxford inquiry of 1972. However the mobility investigated was that known as exchange mobility (other synonyms being pure, perfect, fluidity and circulation mobility), which is defined as departure of observed mobility from perfect mobility. When the man in the street speaks of mobility he usually means something much more specifi…
Shorter Notices
Social Mobility
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