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John Goldthorpe

Sociology

John Harry Goldthorpe is a British sociologist, an emeritus Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, whose main research interests lie in social stratification and mobility and comparative macro-sociology. He also writes on methodological issues concerning how to integrate empirical, quantitative research and theory, with particular attention to questions of causation.

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Birth DateSourced to the subject's own account
1935-05-27 1
Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account
1935 1
BirthplaceSourced to the subject's own account
Great Houghton, West Riding of Yorkshire, England 1
Nationality / CultureSourced to the subject's own account
British 1
Defining ContributionSourced to the subject's own account
Co-developed the Erikson-Goldthorpe-Portocarero (EGP) class schema, widely used in comparative research on social mobility. 1
Notable WorkSourced to the subject's own account
The Constant Flux: A Study of Class Mobility in Industrial Societies (1992) 1
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Goldthorpe class schema, built from employment relations rather than income alone, became one of the most widely used empirical measures of social class stratification.

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  • lead sentence
    John Harry Goldthorpe CBE, FBA (born 27 May 1935) is a British sociologist.
  • Early life section
    Goldthorpe was born in Great Houghton, a remote mining village in the then West Riding of Yorkshire.
  • opening extract sentence
    John Harry Goldthorpe is a British sociologist.
  • Research section
    In the course of this work the Erikson-Goldthorpe-Portocarero (EGP) class schema was developed and has subsequently been widely used in comparative social research.
  • Major works list
    1992 The Constant Flux: A Study of Class Mobility in Industrial Societies. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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