A special issue of a journal examined issues related to social class, culture and identity.
Source: Sociology, Volume 39 Issue 5
Links: Table of contents
Date: 2005-Dec
An article said that the social class of parents was a strong influence on the social class of their children in later life. Young and middle-aged adults with a parent in social classes I or II (professional or managerial occupations) when they were children were the most likely to be in these social classes themselves.
Source: Julian Buxton, Lynda Clarke, Emily Grundy and C E Marshall, 'The long shadow of childhood: associations between parental social class and own social class, educational attainment and timing of first birth; results from the ONS Longitudinal Study', Population Trends 121, Autumn 2005, Office for National Statistics, Palgrave Macmillan (01256 329242)
Links: Article (pdf) | ONS press release (pdf)
Date: 2005-Sep
A paper examined the impact of missing data when evaluating ethnic group differences in intergenerational mobility.
Source: Lucinda Platt, Mobility and Missing Data: What difference does non-response make to observed patterns of intergenerational class mobility by ethnic group?, Working Paper 2005-10, Institute for Social and Economic Research/University of Essex (01206 873087)
Links: Working paper (pdf)
Date: 2005-Jun
Researchers said that inter-generational social mobility in Britain was of the same order of magnitude as in the United States, but substantially less than in Canada and the Nordic countries.
Source: Jo Blanden, Paul Gregg and Steve Machin, Intergenerational Mobility in Europe and North America, Centre for Economic Performance/London School of Economics (020 7955 7673)
Links: Paper (pdf) | BBC report | Guardian report
Date: 2005-Apr
A paper examined the relationship between class, race and party identification using data from the 1997 British Election Study. Although social class did have an impact on the party identification of ethnic minorities, the effect was weaker than among white respondents and did not appear to be transmitted as strongly via class identification or left-right ideology, while ethnicity was related to party identification independently of class. However, although certain mainstream political issues appeared to be less closely related to party identification among ethnic minorities, it did not appear that ethnicity specific issues had any particular influence.
Source: Maria Sobolewska, Ethnicity as political cleavage: social bases of party identity and relevance of political attitudes, Working 107, Centre for Research into Elections and Social Trends, available from University of Strathclyde (0141 552 4400)
Links: Paper (pdf) | Abstract
Date: 2005-Feb