Showing papers on "Vertical mobility published in 1961"
TL;DR: In this paper, the decision to move is seen as a function of these two variables, with complaints about the present dwelling appearing as an intervening variable, and inconsistencies among existing studies are interpreted as reflecting differences in the populations studied.
Abstract: Explanation is sought, in life-cycle and career pattern theories, of the decision to move. Survey data supporting the utility of the career pattern approach are presented and inconsistencies among existing studies are interpreted as reflecting differences in the populations studied. A paradigm based upon "life-cycle stage" and "vertical mobility potential" is used to develop a model for further research. The decision to move is seen as a function of these two variables, with complaints about the present dwelling appearing as an intervening variable.
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TL;DR: The assumption that in contemporary society vertical mobility depends upon formal education is tested with data from England, Sweden, and the United States as discussed by the authors, and the upwardly mobile group is found to comprise mainly persons of typical, not superior, schooling, though among the few individuals with superior training there is relatively high probability of upward mobility.
Abstract: The assumption that in contemporary society vertical mobility depends upon formal education is tested with data from England, Sweden, and the United States. The upwardly mobile group is found to comprise mainly persons of typical, not superior, schooling, though among the few individuals with superior training there is relatively high probability of upward mobility. Detailed data for England reveal that recruits to each stratum outnumber inheritors. A large fraction of the new upper stratum is of lower origin and median schooling. At the same time, a considerable fraction of even the better-educated sons of upper-class fathers drop down the occupational status scale. Circumstances other than schooling play a major part in mobility.
39 citations
TL;DR: The only study of Cuban social organization with any claim to comprehensiveness is Lowry Nelson's "Rural Cuba", 1950 as discussed by the authors, which suggests that although lower, middle and upper classes may be distinguished according to the usual objective criteria, the subjective evaluations of Cubans pointed to only two classes, upper and lower.
Abstract: The only study of Cuban social organization with any claim to comprehensiveness is Lowry Nelson's "Rural Cuba", 1950. Nelson suggests that although lower, middle and upper classes may be distinguished according to the usual objective criteria, the subjective evaluations of Cubans pointed to only two classes, upper and lower. While making it clear that Cuban society was far from rigid and its two classes by no means homogeneous, Nelson (1950:147) discusses vertical mobility and the dynamics of interclass relations only with reference to the labor movement. The most striking aspects of this problem belonged in fact to the urban scene and thus fell outside the scope of his study. Nelson also omitted discussion of the paternalistic concept of government as a factor in the definition of classes; this also is most significant in urban contexts.
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