Childhood Backgrounds of Success in a Profession

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ID4901766
AuthorsPhilip J Allen (corresponding author)
Year1955
Volume20
Issue2
Pages186
Publication date1955-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Sociological Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-1224 • E-ISSN: 1939-8271
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2088324
OpenAlexW2324075049
LanguageEN
Citations received3

was done to enable us to draw wider conclusions. Fortunately other students will be able to examine and analyse in their own fashion the raw data collected by Miss Rogoff and included in her published report. It seems clear, then, that neither inferential analysis based upon historical study nor direct analysis of mobility of groups of individuals can yet indicate whether there has been any change in the rate of vertical mobility in American society. The answer to that question must wait upon more detailed studies which not only build upon the research already done, but which also seek to test precise hypotheses concerning the impact of changing institutions, social organization, and demographic characteristics upon the rate of mobility. The balancing of the as yet unformulated mobility equation, which must take into account increased mobility through new channels of upward movement, decreased mobility through narrowing channels of advancement, changing frequencies of mobility in different groups, and trends in the nature of the class system itself, requires considerably more research energy and effort than sociologists have as yet devoted to the problem

Developmental psychology · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Psychology

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