John Goldthorpe
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Harry Goldthorpe (born 27 May 1935) is a British sociologist. He is emeritus of Nuffield College, Oxford. He works in the areas of social stratification, macrosociology, and recently cultural consumption.
John Goldthorpe has contributed to the understanding of social mobility. 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.
Goldthorpe is also well-known for his work on the embourgeoisement thesis which he dispelled in 1963; or his contributions to rational choice theory. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1984.
John Goldthorpe has trained some of the world's leading sociologists including Yaojun Li, Tak Wing Chan, Duncan Gallie, Meir Yaish and Anthony Heath.
[edit] Works
- 2004 The economic basis of social class. London: Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics.
- 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. 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. 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. 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
