The Contexts of Social Mobility: Ideology and Theory

By Anselm L. Strauss

Book Overview

This book contains a major statement by one of America's most preeminent sociologists on what remains an important problem in American history and social analysis: the nature and extent of movement within American society from one status to another. The most important images of mobility involve self-improvement by changing location (going to the frontier, coming to the big city), and by changing social class (second-generation immigrants). Almost all sociological and historical analysis has been limited to these themes. Strauss extends the concept to a wide range of ideologies, institutional contexts, and social movements; his analysis is based on a formal theory of status passage and develops a partial theory of mobility.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0202307735
• ISBN13: 9780202307732
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.4"