Chapter One. Past Themes and Future Prospects for Research on Social and Economic Mobility

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Tables and Figures xiii
4. Acknowledgments xix
5. Part One. Overview
6. Chapter One. Past Themes and Future Prospects for Research on Social and Economic Mobility 3
7. Part Two. How Much Mobility?
8. Chapter Two. Would Equal Opportunity Mean More Mobility? 23
9. Chapter Three. How Demanding Should Equality of Opportunity Be, and How Much Have We Achieved? 59
10. Part Three. Mobility Between What?
11. Chapter Four. Does the Sociological Approach to Studying Social Mobility Have a Future? 85
12. Chapter Five. The Economic Basis of Social Class 109
13. Chapter Six. Mobility: What? When? How? 137
14. Part Four. Mechanisms of Mobility: Education and the Process of lntergenerational Mobility
15. Chapter Seven. Inequality of Conditions and Intergenerational Mobility: Changing Patterns of Educational Attainment in the United States 165
16. Chapter Eight. Family Attainment Norms and Educational Stratification in the United States and Taiwan: The Effects of Parents' School Transitions 195
17. Chapter Nine. Testing the Breen-Goldthorpe Model of Educational Decision Making 232
18. Chapter Ten. Mental Ability-Uni or Multidimensional? An Analysis of Effects 259
19. Chapter Eleven. Counterfactual Analysis of Inequality and Social Mobility 290
20. Part Five. Contexts of Mobility: Income Dynamics and Vulnerability to Poverty
21. Chapter Twelve. Estimating Individual Vulnerability to Poverty with Pseudo-Panel Data 349
22. Chapter Thirteen. Happiness Pays: An Analysis of Well-Being, Income, and Health Based on Russian Panel Data 370
23. Chapter Fourteen. The Panel-of-Countries Approach to Explaining Income Inequality: An Interdisciplinary Research Agenda 400
24. Index 449