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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Daniel Bertaux; Paul Richard Thompson; et al |
| ISBN: | 0198279310 9780198279310 |
| OCLC Number: | 35016708 |
| Description: | ix, 334 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Women, men, and transgenerational family influences in social mobilty / Paul Thompson -- Heritage and its lineage : a case history of transmission and social mobility over five generations / Daniel Bertaux and Isabelle Bertaux-Wiame -- Shadow and reality in occupational history : Britain in the first half of the twentieth century / David Vincent -- The familial meaning of housing in social rootedness and mobility : Britain and France / Isabelle Bertaux-Wiame and Paul Thompson -- The local world view : social change and memory in three Tuscan communes / Giovanni Contini -- Migration, mobility, and social process : Scottish migrants in Canada / Brian Elliott -- Transmission in extreme situations : Russian families expropriated by the October Revolution / Daniel Bertaux -- Social mobility in Hungary since the Second World War : interpretations through surveys and through families histories / Rudolf Andorka -- Social mobility and the survey method : a critical analysis / Mike Savage. |
| Responsibility: | Daniel Bertaux and Paul Thompson ; with contributions by Rudolf Andorka ... [et al.]. |
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Abstract:
Up to now, the extensive sociological literature on mobility has been based around the survey method. As a result, we have access to abundant statistical data, but there is little information available to explain how and why people follow particular life paths. To overcome these limitations, the authors have developed an alternative, complementary approach using life stories, case histories of whole families over several generations, or case studies of local communities. Employing the case-study approach does not prevent the identification of structural trends; on the contrary, it allows us to analyse those collective processes through their local effects, restoring the links with the classics of sociological thought.
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