Families and mobility
The European experience
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12530939 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel Bertaux (0000-0001-9510-6112, Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique (CNRST), corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 89-104 |
| Publication date | 1994-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Innovation The European Journal of Social Science Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1351-1610 • E-ISSN: 1469-8412 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13511610.1994.9968390 |
| OpenAlex | W2057111566 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 11 |
This paper introduces a new method—Social Genealogies Commented and Compared—for observing how social trajectories of individuals and families are shaped. The basic features of this method—its focus on families rather than individuals, the flexibility of interviewing, the comparison of case studies of families’ histories—make it complementary to survey research. It is argued that the contention of survey research to be the only scientific method of studying social mobility rests upon a Newtonian conception of science that has become obsolete even in the natural sciences. Surveys work best in societies which have stable social structures and a large degree of social homogeneity nation‐wide, and where individual achievement, not family ties, is the key factor in shaping individual trajectories; this is not the case for most European societies. Techniques for collecting and analyzing Social Genealogies are described. Issues such as representativeness and generalization, family legends and the breakdown of nuclear families are briefly dealt with. The pedagogical usefulness of this form of data collecting is stressed
Epistemology · European Social Survey · Flexibility (engineering · Interview · Political science · Representativeness heuristic · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Mathematics · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.07 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2011 - 2011 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |