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- Title
Models and Social Mobility Research: a Comparison of Some Log--Linear Models of a Social Mobility Matrix.
- Authors
Pöntinen, Seppo
- Abstract
Log-linear models were first used in social mobility research to test hypotheses about trends of social mobility. Recently, however, they have also been used to describe the structure of interactions in a mobility matrix. One of the interesting features of log-linear models is that they suggest a solution to an old problem in social mobility research; of how to take into account differences in and changes of, occupational structures. In social mobility research it is often assumed that the occupational structure and its changes at least partly direct the process of social mobility. For this reason, in social mobility research there have been many attempts to divide the amount of social mobility into a structural component and a residual component, which has also been termed circular, pure, free, or exchange mobility. The problem with these models is that they can only weakly support the ideas, which they reflect. It is possible to disprove certain ideas, but many, even contradictory ideas are consistent with the data. Log-linear models do not seem to make it possible to test these against each other.
- Subjects
LOG-linear models; MULTIVARIATE analysis; MATHEMATICAL models; MATHEMATICAL statistics; SOCIAL mobility; REGRESSION analysis
- Publication
Quality & Quantity, 1982, Vol 16, Issue 2, p91
- ISSN
0033-5177
- Publication type
Article