S.c Inequalities Social Mobility Flashcards

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Goldthorpe

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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

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Gordon marshall the Essex university mobility

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(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

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Abbott

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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

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Ken Roberts

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(2001)found 55% of men originating in the working class end up staying in that class

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Saunders

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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

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