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European Sociological Review 3:54-77 1987
© 1987 Oxford University Press

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Commonality and variation in social fluidity in industrial nations. Part I: A model for evaluating the ‘FJH hypothesis’

ROBERT ERIKSON and JOHN H. GOLDTHORPE

Swedish Institute for Social Research,University of Stockholm 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden.
Nuffield College Oxford OX I INF, UK.

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.


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