Latent Structure Models for Relationally Defined Social Classes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2210560 |
|---|---|
| Authors | P V Marsden (0000-0002-2585-8615, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 90 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1002-1021 |
| Publication date | 1985-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/228174 |
| OpenAlex | W2034647558 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 15 |
Ronald L. Breiger raised an intriguing set of issues for mobility analysts by suggesting that attention must be paid not only to the pattern of mobility between social classes but also to the manner in which occupations are to be mapped into social classes. This article examines two related models-collapsibility and internal homogeneity-for analyzing occupational mobility tables according to this scheme, by reformulating them as restricted latent class models in which the unobserved class variables are made explicit. The parametric representation of both models provides additional insight into how they differ. In particular, it clarifies the different ways in which they operationalize the criterion of "common mobility chances" for aggregating occupations into classes. The latent class model also permits the formulation of a new model for relationally defined social classes, a model that recognizes that the correspondence between class boundaries and occupational boundaries may be imperfect and that "marginal" occupations may be mapped into two or more classes. A model of this sort provides a good fit to the classic 8 x 8 British mobility table; this model appears to the both conceptually and statistically simpler than the internal homogeneity model
Class (philosophy) · Econometrics · Epistemology · Homogeneity (statistics) · Latent class model · Latent variable · Mathematical economics · Operationalization · Parametric statistics · Social mobility · Sociology · sort · Statistics · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Mathematics · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,24 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2026 (35) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |