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The Process of Stratification: a Critical Examination after 50 years

Sociologický ústav Slovenskej akadémie vied, v. v. i.
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Ústavný seminár Sociologického ústavu SAV
14. 10. 2026 o 13:30

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The Process of Stratification: a Critical Examination after 50 years

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Harry Ganzeboom
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Prednáška bude v anglickom jazyku v miestnosti č. 94 na Klemensovej 19 v Bratislave

Abstrakt:

In 1967, Blau & Duncan’s The American Occupational Structure, and in particular its chapter 5, The Process of Stratification (with Duncan as primary author), revolutionized research on intergenerational mobility and social stratification, by introducing the status attainment [SAT] model of intergenerational transmission of educational and occupational status. While widely acknowledges as a theoretically and methodologically very influential study, stratification sociology was only quick to forget the many innovations that the SAT model had brought. In this paper I aim to outline to younger generations which those innovations were and how we can still learn from them. I identify at least twelve important innovations and explicate how they are related to earlier and subsequent thought. Second, with the benefit of hindsight, I identify and critically examine the many (seven) problems of the SAT model as a valid representation of the true process of intergenerational transmission of educational and occupational status. Finally, I highlight a number of findings that can be drawn from Blau & Duncan’s SAT model, and in particular eight dubious ones. Taking evidence from the worldwide and voluminous ISSP Social Inequality modules IV and V (2009 + 2019), I replicate the SAT model for men and women, with education and occupation of both parents included in the model.