Education correlates strongly with most important social and economic outcomes such as
economic success, health, family stability, and social connections. Theories of stratification and …

The association between men's and women's socioeconomic origins and destinations
decreased by one-third between 1972 and 1985. This trend is related to the rising proportion of …

Academic research on social mobility from the 1960s until now has made several facts clear.
First, and most important, it is better to ask how the conditions and circumstances of early …

Emily Beller and Michael Hout examine trends in US social mobility, especially as it relates
to the degree to which a person's income or occupation depends on his or her parents' …

The proportion of Americans who reported no religious preference doubled from 7 percent
to 14 percent in the 1990s. This dramatic change may have resulted from demographic shifts, …

… In Raftery and Hout (1985) we found no significant association between participation and …
and either educational attainment or class (Raftery and Hout 1985), so we used all the data in …

We focus on the intergenerational transmission of the propensity to be self-employed. Our
emphasis is on the role of family background, and in particular, on what we call the …

As debate rages over the widening and destructive gap between the rich and the rest of
Americans, Claude Fischer and his colleagues present a comprehensive new treatment of …

The concept of similarity, or a sense of ‘sameness’ among things, is pivotal to theories in the
cognitive sciences and beyond. Similarity, however, is a difficult thing to measure. …

We present evidence of a historic realignment in the relationship between class and voting
behavior in US presidential elections in the postwar period. We take advantage of recent …