Commonality and variation in social fluidity in industrial nations. Part I: A model for evaluating the ‘FJH hypothesis’
Commonality and variation in social fluidity in industrial nations. Part I: A model for evaluating the ‘FJH hypothesis’
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工业国家社会流动性的共性和变化。第一部分：评估“FJH 假说”的模型。
DOI：
10.1093/oxfordjournals.esr.a036430
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发表时间：
1987
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
J. Goldthorpe
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作者：
R. Erikson;J. Goldthorpe
讨论了“FJH假说”的意义--提出了所有工业化国家社会流动性的相对比率基本相似的假设--并指出了与检验有关的困难。有人建议，最好将所讨论的“基本相似性”设想为社会流动性的“核心”模式，不同社会中实际发现的模式可能会或多或少地偏离这一模式。通过对一组工业国家代际阶层流动性的可比数据的分析，得出了这种核心模式的一种可能的经验表示，然后试图对这种经验表示进行建模。所提出的模型是一种“拓扑”类型，但不是基于单一的，而是基于四个不同的“水平”矩阵，每个矩阵的目的是捕捉在阶级结构背景下对社会流动性的特定影响。该模型考虑了新出现的特征，并指出了它作为一种在社会学和统计学方面评估FJH假说的优势。
The significance of the ‘FJH hypothesis’—proposing a basic similarity in relative rates of social mobility in all industrial nations—is discussed, and difficulties associated with its testing are noted. It is suggested that the ‘basic similarity’ in question can best be envisaged as a ‘core’ pattern of social fluidity, from which the patterns actually found in different societies may deviate to a greater or lesser extent. A possible empirical representation of this core pattern is derived from an analysis of comparable data on intergenerational-class mobility for a set of industrial nations, and the attempt is then made to model this empirical representation. The model proposed is of a ‘topological’ kind but is based not on a single, but rather on four different ‘levels’ matrices, each of which is intended to capture a specific effect operating on social fluidity within a class structural context. Emergent features of the model are considered, and its advantages as a means of evaluating the FJH hypothesis in sociological as well as statistical terms are presented.