Practice question · True or false
Erikson and Goldthorpe found in The Constant Flux that relative mobility rates were broadly similar across industrial societies and fairly stable over time.
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- Ask what "constant" in the title refers to.
- Their finding separates the changing shape of the occupational structure from the strength of the origin effect.
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True
Why
True, and the title says it: a great deal of movement, with the underlying pattern of relative chances remarkably persistent. The result has been challenged at the margins, several studies find modest equalisation in some countries and periods, but the broad finding of persistence has held up well.
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