Migration, Community of Origin, and Status Attainment: A Comparison of Two Metropolitan Communities in Developing Societies

Comparative Stratification and Mobility

“…The most active area of comparative research involved comparisons of national rates of social mobility (see Matras, 1980;Boyd et al, 1981;Jones, 1969a, 1969b;Broom and McDonell, 1974;Garnier and Hazelrigg, 1974;Hansen, 1977;Jones, 1976;Kleining, 1978;McRoberts and Selbee, 1978;Moots, 1976;Pontinen, 1976;Svalastoga, 1965;Svalastoga and Rishoj, 1970;Wesolowski et al, 1978). The proliferation of comparative mobility studies resulted from the increasing number, quality, and comparability of national social mobility tables available for secondary analyses, and also from a series of methodological contributions which steadily increased the sophistication of means of separating structural from other-than-structural components of cross-societal differences in mobility (see Cutright, 1968b;Hauser et al 1975;Hauser, 1977).…”