Researching Social Mobility. 2001. ISBN 967-942-469-3. 222 pgs. RM30.00. Robert Miller Malaysia is a society undergoing rapid development and profound structural changes. A feature of these changes is a high rate of social mobility. The study of social mobility is arguably the most advanced area of sociology. Despite the high level of empirical work, however, approaches to the study of social mobility have become stagnant with the pace of genuine conceptual advance slowing to a crawl. This volume proposes extensions to routine approaches for studying social mobility that could allow social scientists in the field to carry out work that would be innovative at an international level. This book presents a critical evaluation of the dominant paradigm in social mobility research and goes on to propose alternative modes of analysis. The feasibility of these alternative conceptualizations is demonstrated through the empirical analysis. This dataset used in these analyses is drawn from northern Ireland and is unique that it contains complete, restrospective time indexed life history information on the employment, education, geographic location and fertility of a large scale representative national sample.
ROBERT MILLER, Ph. D., a Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Sociology and Social Policy, Queen’sUniversity, Belfast. Previously in 1996-97 he was a visiting Associate Professor at the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. Currently he is the Director of The Center for Social Research at Queen’s University, Belf
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