Pathways to social class:a qualitative approach to social mobility

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bertaux Daniel.
Group Author: Thompson Paul Richard, 1935-
Published: Transaction Publishers,
Publisher Address: New Brunswick, NJ
Publication Dates: 2007.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Carrier Form: ix, 334 p.: ill. ; 23 cm.
ISBN: 1412806135 (alk. paper)
9781412806138 (alk. paper)
Index Number: C91
CLC: C91
Call Number: C91/B536
Contents: Rev. ed., originally published: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction / Daniel Bertaux and Paul Thompson -- 2. Women, men, and the transgenerational family influences on social mobility / Paul Thompson -- 3. Heritage and its lineage : a case history of transmission and social mobility over five generations / Daniel Bertaux and Isabelle Bertaux-Waime -- 4. Shadow and reality in occupational history : Britain in the first half of the twentieth century / David Vincent -- 5. The familial meaning of housing in social rootedness and mobility : Britain and France / Isabelle Bertaux-Waime and Paul Thompson -- 6. The local world view : social change and memory in three Tuscan communes / Giovanni Contini -- 7. Migration, mobility, and social process : Scottish migrants in Canada / Brian Elliott -- 8. Transmission in extreme situations : Russian families expropriated by the October Revolution / Daniel Bertaux -- 9. Social mobility in Hungary since the Second World War : interpretations through surveys and through family histories / Rudolf Andorka -- 10. Social mobility and the survey method : a critical analysis / Mike Savage -- Index.