Sociálna mobilita: pojmy, teórie, hypotézy
Social Mobility: Concepts, Theories and Hypotheses

Summary/Abstract: Social Mobility: Concepts, Theories and Hypotheses. The paper is devoted to a short review of more than 70 years continuous sociological research on social mobility. Author recapitulates and evaluates primary the theoretical contributions of well-known social mobility researchers in the history of sociology: P. Sorokin, S. Lipset, R. Bendix, H. Zetterberg, P. Blau, O. Duncan, J. Goldthorpe, D. Featherman, R. Hauser etc. This recapitulation shows that sociological research on social mobility is a better example of the cumulative nature of sociological knowledge than sociological research on social stratification. Concepts and theories dating from the work of Sorokin at the beginning of the twentieth century had been progressively developed in the light of new findings, and in the process, statistical techniques of data analysis had been transformed. For example, the LZ thesis has been superseded by the FJH hypothesis, and basic percentages have been replaced by odds ratios. One of the by-products of successive conceptual, theoretical and methodological refinements had been an increase in complexity that defies neat and easy generalisation. Further, it seems that social mobility is a topic which encourages highly technical quantification, and which had tended to result in the confirmation of the findings of earlier, less sophisticated studies. Sociológia 2000 Vol. 32 (No. 2: 139-152)

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