The second edition of this classic study, fully updated and extended, now includes an analysis of recent trends in intergenerational mobility, the class mobility of women, and views of social mobility in modern Britain from a cross-national perspective.

On Sociology--extensively revised, updated, and enlarged for this second edition--addresses the current state of the discipline. Looking to unify increasingly disparate areas of theory and research, John Goldthorpe presents a new mainstream for sociology, combining the demonstrated strengths of large-scale quantitative research and the explanatory power of social action theory. The author's wide-ranging mastery, extending over comparative macro-sociology, applications of rational action theory, and philosophical and theoretical debates on causality, to key questions in educational...

“ When the most distinguished empirical social researcher in Britain takes on the problem of the relation between theory and research, places the issues in their larger historical setting (based on wide and accurate reading in the historical literature), and also states the issue in current technical terms, and does so with both panache and bite, we get a book that is well worth reading.” — American Journal of Sociology
“ Goldthorpe's project has all the scope and reach of the post-war functionalist program of Parsons and Merton, but it is likely to be more...

“ When the most distinguished empirical social researcher in Britain takes on the problem of the relation between theory and research, places the issues in their larger historical setting (based on wide and accurate reading in the historical literature), and also states the issue in current technical terms, and does so with both panache and bite, we get a book that is well worth reading.” — American Journal of Sociology
“ Goldthorpe's project has all the scope and reach of the post-war functionalist program of Parsons and Merton, but it is likely to be more...

On Sociology brings together a collection of essays from the last ten years by one of the best-known and influential British sociologist, John H. Goldthorpe. The essays are concerned with the intellectual discovery of contemporary sociology. The collection begins with essays critical of various current tendencies in sociology and moves on to propose a new direction for the sociological mainstream. The essays combine the established strengths of quantitative sociology with recent developments in the theory of social action, especially rational action theory. The book then turns to specific...

In this 1968 volume the authors report on the voting and the political attitudes of a sample of highly-paid manual workers.

This final book in The Affluent Worker series was originally published in 1969. It contains the findings and conclusions on the issues the research was specifically designed to investigate - the extent of working class embourgeoisment. This thesis is examined in the several contexts of work, sociability, social aspirations and imagery, and so on. At all these points it is called into question empirically and conceptually. In this volume which brings the project to an end, the authors also take up again the broad questions of class and politics out of which the investigation originally...

Sonst so unterschiedl iche Autoren wie Thomas S. Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend, Robert K. Merton und Gerald Holton haben uns darauf aufmerksam gemacht, dass in der Wissenschaftsgeschichte nicht Tradition, auch nicht Kontinuitat und schon gar ni cht Fol geri chti gkeit das Regi ment fuhren. Das Geschehen, schreibt Merton in Auf den Schultern von Riesen, "ist stets auf dem Ab sprung, verwei st naCliVorne, ruckwartSOcleraur-di e Sei te" und ni cht ohne Grund nimmt in . . seiner Wissenschaftsgeschichte das Interesse an Vorweg-, Wiederauf- und Ubernahmen, d. h. an Antizipation, Tradition und Plagiat einen...