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Using data from the 1972 Nuffileld enquiry, trends in class mobility in England and Wales are investigated on the basis of birth cohort comparisons. In the case of absolute mobility rates— i.e. those actually observed in terms of a schema of class positions—trends over time, notably towards increasing upward and decreasing downward mobility, are clearly indicated, and have been favoured by the pattern of secular change in the occupational division of labour. However, in the case of relative mobility rates, as expressed in the form of 'disparity ratios' and 'odds ratios', stability is far more apparent than change. A log-linear model representing the hypothesis of 'constant social fluidity' is shown to fit the empirical data rather well; and the application of more elaborate models suggests that any changes in relative mobility rates that have occurred have been ones in the direction of decreasing fluidity, where mobility over the full extent of the life-cycle is considered.

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