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Social Structure and Mobility in Economic Development
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Routledge
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Routledge
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The foundation of this volume is the notion that the several processes of change constituting economic and social development are systematically interrelated. The essence of development is the appearance of rapid rates of increases in many different indices--output per capita, political participation, literacy and the like. These quantitative changes are, however, commonly accompanied by vast... Read more
1: Social Structure, Mobility and Development; 2: Methodological Issues in the Analysis of Social Mobility; 3: Measures and Effects of Social Mobility; 4: Pre-Industrial Stratification Systems; 5: Interaction between Industrial and Pre-Industrial Stratification Systems; 6: Changes in Occupational Structures; 7: Changes in Rates and Forms of Mobility; 8: Rural-Urban Balance and Models of Economic Development; 9: A Case Study in Cultural and Educational Mobility: Japan and the Protestant Ethic; 10: Psychological Origins of Mobility; 11: The Disreputable Poor; 12: Political Mobility and Economic Development; 13: Social and Political Consequences of Mobility
Biography
Neil J. Smelser is emeritus professor, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley. Seymour Martin Lipset was professor of sociology and director of the Institute of International Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
