Structural and Circulation Mobility are Alive and Well

A Critical Comment on Sobel's Premature Obituary Notice

Bibliographic Data

ID2325946
AuthorsF Lancaster Jones (corresponding author)
Year1985
Volume19
Issue1
Pages139-142
Publication date1985-02-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-0385 • E-ISSN: 1469-8684
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0038038585019001012
OpenAlexW2010799174
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited9

Hope's halfway model, which represents an attempt to differentiate structural from other sources of occupational mobility, is defended against Sobel's recent criticism, which has force only if the independence model is rejected as an appropriate baseline from which to measure social mobility and immobility. Sobel treats the independence model primarily as a statistical model, whereas in the classical tradition it was a substantive model as well: the model of equality of opportunity. Understood in this way, the independence model, and the macrosociological concepts of structural and circulation mobility, have a continuing place in mobility analysis. It is also argued that Sobel's strictures on the Yasuda index are vacuous, since the examples he gives merely illustrate the nature (and crudity) of that measure

Circulation (fluid dynamics) · Criticism · Data mining · Economics · Epistemology · Independence (probability theory) · Mathematical economics · Measure (data warehouse) · Notice · Obituary · Physics · Political science · Positive economics · Sobel operator · Social mobility · Social science · Sociology · Statistics · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Employment and Welfare Studies · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

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