S.c Inequalities Social Mobility Flashcards
Goldthorpe
Oms studied a sample of 10,000 men to compare the occupational classes of sons and their father he found the relative chance of social mobility between the 3 classes 1:2:4
Gordon marshall the Essex university mobility
(1988) found evidence of inequality in relative mobility rates with someone starting off in the service class having 7 times as much chance of ending up in the service class as someone from a working class background
Abbott
Argues that women’s experiences of mobility are likely to be different from men’s because of the disadvantages faced by women in the workplace
Ken Roberts
(2001)found 55% of men originating in the working class end up staying in that class
Saunders
Argues that children of the service class are likely to inherit higher levels of intelligence and thus have a better chance of achieving service class jobs