Political attitudes, social participation and social mobility: a longitudinal analysis.
Political attitudes, social participation and social mobility: a longitudinal analysis.
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政治态度、社会参与和社会流动性：纵向分析。
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发表时间：
2008
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Lindsay Paterson
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作者：
Lindsay Paterson
人们经常认为，支撑福利国家民主的政治态度和社会参与依赖于大量向上的社会流动。根据这一观点，服务阶层的人口结构异质性促使他们愿意领导一个寻求建立共同社会公民的共同政治项目。随着向上流动的数量停滞不前，甚至开始下降，有人进一步声称，服务阶层可能会出现一定程度的意识形态封闭，这可能会侵蚀他们对公民价值观的承诺。1958年的英国出生队列研究就是用来研究这个问题的。纵向数据在这里非常有价值，因为它们允许我们区分两个假设：向上流动本身诱导了服务阶层的某些态度和参与倾向，或者更重要的影响是向上流动的人经历的早期社会化。分析的结论是，尽管服务阶层的公民价值观并不依赖于向上流动，但对有认知能力的人来说，这一点比其他人更真实，因此依赖于选择进入工薪阶层的某种精英基础。
It is often suggested that the political attitudes and social participation which have underpinned the welfare-state democracies have depended on large amounts of upward social mobility. The demographic heterogeneity of the service class, according to this view, induced in them a willingness to lead a common political project seeking to establish a common social citizenship. As the amount of upward mobility stagnates or even begins to fall, it has then further been claimed that there might emerge a degree of ideological closure in the service class that might erode their commitment to civic values. The 1958 British birth cohort study is used to investigate this question. Longitudinal data are invaluable here because they allow us to distinguish between two hypotheses: that upward mobility as such has induced in the service class certain attitudes and propensities to participate, or that the more important influence is the early socialization through which upwardly mobile people went. The conclusion of the analysis is that, although the civic values of the service class have not depended on upward mobility, this is much more true of cognitively able people than of others, and so is dependent on the somewhat meritocratic basis of selection into the salariat.