Social origins and occupational career patterns

TLDR: In this article, the authors examined the mobility of individuals among noncompeting groups in terms of the relation between father's occupation and the career pattern of sons and found that educational attainment is perhaps the most important factor differentiating individuals in the various groups.

Abstract: The concept of "noncompeting groups"--for example, discrete dusters of occupations, such as manual labor, skilled mechanics, business executives, professionals, and the like, among which movement of individual workers is extremely limited--occupies a prominent role in wage and employment theory In analyses of the labor force, these groups are usually designated as socioeconomic classes The study here presented examines mobility of individuals among these groups in terms of the relation between father's occupation and the career pattern of sons Since educational attainment is perhaps the most important factor differentiating individuals in the various groups, the relation between father's occupational level and the educational level reached by sons is also analyzed (Author's abstract courtesy EBSCO)