John Harry Goldthorpe (born 27 May 1935) is a British sociologist. Events 927 - Simeon the Great, Tsar of Bulgaria, dies 1120 - Richard III of Capua is anointed Year 1935 ( MCMXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Sociology (from Latin: socius "companion" and the suffix -ology "the study of" from Greek λόγος lógos "knowledge" He is emeritus of Nuffield College, Oxford. Nuffield College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. The University of Oxford (informally "Oxford University" or simply "Oxford" located in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England is the He works in the areas of social stratification, macrosociology, and recently cultural consumption. In Sociology, social stratification is the hierarchical arrangement of Social classes Castes and strata within a Society. Macrosociology is a Sociological approach that analyzes Societies, Social systems or Populations on a large scale or at a high level of abstraction
John Goldthorpe has contributed to the understanding of social mobility. See also Economic mobility Social mobility is the degree to which in a given society an individual's family's or group's social status His work on social class led to the well-established Goldthorpe class schema, one of the standard approaches to classify class in sociology. The Goldthorpe class schema is based on eleven classes, which are grouped into three main clusters—the service class, the intermediate class, and the working class. Service class people ( Служилые люди in Russian) - persons bound by obligations of service especially Military service, to the Muscovite
Goldthorpe is also well-known for his work on the embourgeoisement thesis which he dispelled in 1963; or his contributions to rational choice theory. The Embourgeoisement Hypothesis is the argument that contrary to the class conflict theory of Karl Marx (1818-1883 increasing numbers of what might traditionally be classified Rational choice theory, also known as rational action theory, is a framework for understanding and often formally modeling social and economic behavior He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1984. The British Academy is the United Kingdom 's National academy for the Humanities and the Social sciences It was established by Royal Charter He was a student of Norbert Elias. Norbert Elias ( June 22, 1897 &mdash August 1, 1990) was a German sociologist of Jewish descent who later became
Works
- 2004 The economic basis of social class. London: Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics. The London School of Economics and Political Science, more commonly referred to as The London School of Economics or LSE, is a specialist college of the
- 2000 On sociology: numbers, narratives, and the integration of research and theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-829571-5
- 1996 Rational choice theory and large-scale data analysis. Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar) Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- 1992 The constant flux: a study of class mobility in industrial societies. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-827383-5
- 1992 Revised class schema. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) London: Social and Community Planning Research.
- 1989 The uses of history in sociology: reflections on some recent tendencies. Oxford: Nuffield College.
- 1987 Social mobility and class structure in modern Britain. Year 1987 ( MCMLXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar) Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-827286-3
- 1963 The affluent worker: political attitudes and behaviour. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-07204-2
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