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- Title
THEORETICAL SOCIAL MOBILITY MODELS AND CONGRUENCE WITH COMPARATIVE FINDINGS: AN ANALYSIS OF RAYMOND BOUDON'S WORKS.
- Authors
Miller, Steven I.; Bogal, Rosemarie B.
- Abstract
The pioneering work of sociologist Raymond Boudon in the areas of social stratification, social mobility, inequality of educational and social opportunity and model building has produced a large and extremely important body of literature for sociologists of education. Perhaps one of the greatest impacts of Boudon's work has been the number of suggestive hypotheses that it has generated. This is evidence by the volume of recent articles and criticisms directed toward Boudon's work. The present article attempts to analyze the conclusions drawn by Boudon as to the determinants of mobility. This is by computing actual mobility rates on the entire model. In computing the mobility rates for the model, authors look at several relationships. By the way of example, certain parts of Boudon's basic model are re-analyzed to test whether his conclusions would be substantiated. This re-analysis included the computation of specific mobility rates and measures of association between the variables under conditions in which only one of the independent variables was allowed to vary.
- Subjects
SOCIAL mobility; BOUDON, Raymond; SOCIOLOGISTS; DETERMINANTS (Mathematics); SOCIAL stratification; MATHEMATICAL variables; MATHEMATICAL sociology
- Publication
Quality & Quantity, 1979, Vol 13, Issue 4, p289
- ISSN
0033-5177
- Publication type
Article