social mobility: References & Edit History

Classic discussions of social mobility include Pitirim A. Sorokin, Social Mobility (1927, reissued 1998); Seymour Martin Lipset and Reinhard Bendix, Social Mobility in Industrial Society (1959, reissued with new introduction, 1992); and S.M. Miller, Comparative Social Mobility: A Trend Report and Bibliography (1960). For studies of social mobility in the United States, see Peter M. Blau and Otis Dudley Duncan, The American Occupational Structure (1967, reprinted 1978); or William H. Sewell, Robert M. Hauser, and David L. Featherman (eds.), Schooling and Achievement in American Society (1976). Other examples from around the world are John H. Goldthorpe, Catriona Llewellyn, and Clive Payne, Social Mobility and Class Structure in Modern Britain, 2nd ed. (1987); and Harry B.G. Ganzeboom, Donald J. Treiman, and Wout C. Ultee, “Comparative Intergenerational Stratification Research: Three Generations and Beyond,” in Annual Review of Sociology, 17:277–302 (1991).