The Economic Basis of Social Class

By J. Goldthorpe, A. McKnight. 2004

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In this paper we adopt a theory of class positions based on employment relations to assess what implications individuals? class positions have for their economic life. In particular we consider economic security (the risk of unemployment), economic stability (the variability component in earnings) and economic prospects (lifetime earnings profiles). Our findings provide empirical support for the theory itself and little evidence for the currently fashionable claims of the decline, or even death, of class in today?s society.

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• Social Status and Newspaper Readership1 (2007, background): “…while social class is of course known to have many important consequences for individuals’ life chances—say, for economic security and prospects (Goldthorpe and McKnight 2006), for educational attainment (Jonsson and Erikson 1996), and for health, morbidity, and mortality (Bartley et al.…”
• THE EUROPEAN SOCIO-ECONOMIC CLASSIFICATION: A NEW SOCIAL CLASS SCHEMA FOR COMPARATIVE EUROPEAN RESEARCH (2007, background): “…3, 6, 7, 8 and 9 in terms of greater long-term security of income; being less likely to be made redundant; less short-term fluctuation of income since they are not dependent on overtime pay, etc.; and a better prospect of a rising income over the life course (see Goldthorpe and McKnight 2006).”
• Educational aspirations among UK Young Teenagers: Exploring the role of gender, class and ethnicity (2016, background): “Semi-routine and routine jobs best map onto what was once termed working class (Goldthorpe & McKnight 2006).”
• A vulnerability approach to the definition of the middle class (2011, background): “From that perspective, and based on the notion discussed in Goldthorpe and McKnight, we explore the link between income and vulnerability to poverty to define the lowerthreshold of middle class for three Latin American countries.”
• Social stratification and cultural consumption: The visual arts in England (2007, background): “Membership of the NS-SEC classes has been shown to be a good predictor of economic security, stability and prospects ( Goldthorpe and McKnight, 2006 ), and might in turn be taken as a useful proxy for ‘permanent’ income.”
• Trends in Intergenerational Class Mobility in Modern Britain: Evidence From National Surveys, 1972—2005 (2008, background): “A continuation of the increase in economic inequality – between as well as within social classes (cf. Goldthorpe and McKnight, 2006) – that has occurred since the 1980s could be expected to make for declining fluidity within the class structure (cf. Goldthorpe, 2007, vol. 2, ch. 7).”
• The Three Worlds of Inequality1 (2012, background): “…because either (a) the underlying opportunities, constraints, and logic of the class situation generate a characteristic set of interests (e.g., Goldthorpe and McKnight 2006) or (b) there is a “direct translation of the lessons of the job to outsidethe-job realities” (Kohn 2008, p. 539).”
• Parental education, class and income over early life course and children's achievement (2016, background): “Social class is also sometimes viewed as a particularly good proxy for permanent income (c.f. Erikson & Goldthorpe, 2010) and is closely related to unemployment risk (Goldthorpe & McKnight, 2006).”