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Opening and Closing the Gates: Recent Developments in Male Social Mobility in Britain

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  • Geoff Payne
  • Judy Roberts

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Sociological understanding of social mobility in Britain has depended heavily on the 1972 Nuffield Mobility Study. In the virtual absence of more recent data, analysis has drawn on this single study with its reliance on cohorts of males as the indicator of changes in mobility. One of the central conclusions has been that relative mobility rates, the key marker of class inequalities, remain unchanged. A new analysis of data from recent British Election Surveys shows that these conclusions should not be empirically generalised to the last quarter of a century, and that British society has experienced both periods of greater ?openness? and ‘closure’. Several conceptual reservations follow once the limitations of the ‘Nuffield tradition’ have been identified. In particular, a case is made for closer attention to labour market processes and rates of absolute mobility.

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  • Geoff Payne & Judy Roberts, 2002. "Opening and Closing the Gates: Recent Developments in Male Social Mobility in Britain," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 6(4), pages 1-13, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:socres:v:6:y:2002:i:4:p:1-13
    DOI: 10.5153/sro.664
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    1. Lindsay Paterson & Cristina Iannelli, 2008. "Patterns of Absolute and Relative Social Mobility: A Comparative Study of England, Wales and Scotland," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 12(6), pages 58-78, January.
    2. Paul Lambert & Kenneth Prandy & Wendy Bottero, 2007. "By Slow Degrees: Two Centuries of Social Reproduction and Mobility in Britain," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 12(1), pages 37-62, January.
    3. Julia Brannen, 2003. "Towards a Typology of Intergenerational Relations: Continuities and Change in Families," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 8(2), pages 50-60, May.
    4. Andrea Lizama-Loyola, 2022. "Teachers’ Narratives of Life Satisfaction, Social Mobility, and Practical Sense of Inequalities in Chile," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 27(2), pages 342-360, June.
    5. Yaojun Li & Fiona Devine, 2011. "Is Social Mobility Really Declining? Intergenerational Class Mobility in Britain in the 1990s and the 2000s," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 16(3), pages 28-41, August.

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