The Truth about Class Inequality

Ringen, Stein

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@article{ Ringen2006,
 title = {The Truth about Class Inequality},
 author = {Ringen, Stein},
 journal = {Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review},
 number = {3},
 pages = {475-492},
 volume = {42},
 year = {2006},
 urn = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-56517},
 abstract = {A strongly recommended conclusion in sociology about trends in class inequality has been summarised by Goldthorpe as a high degree of 'temporal constancy & cross-national communality'. This conclusion, here called 'the stability thesis', was first challenged by Ringen in 1987 & again, on more methodological grounds, by Ringen & Hellevik in two papers published in 1997. These challenges resulted in a process of debate & reassessment. It is now possible to sum up & conclude. The stability thesis rests on empirical results from odds-ratio readings of mobility table data. The authority of this methodology is re-examined in terms of normative significance & statistical validity. Mobility table data which have generated stability thesis findings are re-analysed with the standard gini-index methodology in the study of inequality, then yielding different findings which contradict the stability thesis. The main conclusion is that the stability thesis can now be considered overturned.},
}