Chan, TW;
(2018)
Social mobility and the wellbeing of individuals.
British Journal of Sociology
, 69
(1)
pp. 183-206.
10.1111/1468-4446.12285.
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Abstract
Several papers published in recent years have revived interest in Sorokin’s dissociative thesis: the view that intergenerational social mobility has detrimental effects on the social relationships and wellbeing of individuals. In this paper, I test the dissociative thesis using data from the British Household Panel Survey and Understanding Society. On a wide range of indicators that measure participation in civic associations, contact with parents, close personal relationships, social support, subjective wellbeing, etc. individuals who have achieved longrange upward mobility (i.e. those who move from working class origin to salariat destination) tend to fare better than those who are immobile in the working class. Those who have experienced long-range downward mobility (moving from salariat origin to working class destination) do about as well as second-generation members of the working class. Overall, there is no support for Sorokin’s thesis.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Social mobility and the wellbeing of individuals |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/1468-4446.12285 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12285 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1540234 |
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