Common social fluidity
A Comment on Recent Criticisms
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2238124 |
|---|---|
| Authors | F Lancaster Jones (Australian National University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 233-237 |
| Publication date | 1992-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0266-7215 • E-ISSN: 1468-2672 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oxfordjournals.esr.a036639 |
| OpenAlex | W2519975155 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 27 |
In an ambitious and wide-ranging paper, Ganzeboom, Luijkx, and Treiman (1989) have analysed 149 mobility tables for over thirty countries covering, in some cases, three to four decades. They cast their analysis and interpretation largely in terms of the hypothesis of common social fluidity, a generalization advanced sixteen years ago by Featherman, Jones, and Hauser (1975). With respect to the FJH hypothesis, they reach a definite and unambiguous conclusion: the hypothesis of common social fluidity is simply incorrect. I reanalyse their data to show that their conclusion is itself incorrect. Indeed, the evidence for common social fluidity is stronger than that for a world-wide similarity in occupational prestige hierarchies, a proposition strongly endorsed by at least one of the above critics
Economics · Epistemology · Generalization · Linguistics · Positive economics · Prestige · Proposition · Sociology · Computer Science · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Capital and Networks · Social Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
Sociologiens nutidige krise
Den nuvarande krisen inom sociologin
Class Origin, Class Destination, and Education
Equality at a Halt? Social Mobility in Sweden, 1976–99
Opportunities, Little Change
Conclusions
Social Mobility in Europe between 1970 and 2000
Intergenerational Mobility in Poland
Changes in Intergenerational Class Mobility in Hungary, 1973–2000
Statistical Methods of Mobility Research
Change in Intergenerational Class Mobility in France from the 1970s to the 1990s and its Explanation
The Comparative Study of Social Mobility
Social Mobility in West Germany
Class Transformation and Trends in Social Fluidity in the Republic of Ireland 1973–94
Trends in Intergenerational Class Mobility in Britain in the Late Twentieth Century
The Italian Mobility Regime
Social Mobility in Norway 1973–95
Recent Trends in Intergenerational Occupational Class Reproduction in the Netherlands 1970–99
Revisiting the FJH Hypothesis
Do you know what you do for a living? Occupational coding mismatches between coders in the Korean General Social Survey
Social Mobility and Education in Britain
Social Mobility in Europe
Educational Careers in Estonia
Primary ’ Factors in Intergenerational Class Mobility in Europe
Intergenerational class mobility in industrial and post-industrial societies
The Relation between Inequality and Intergenerational Class Mobility in 39 Countries
Diversity and Commonality in National Identities
| Unique citing works | 27 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,87 |
| Citation span | 1995 - 2025 (31) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |