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Inter-Generation Occupational Mobility in the Province of Quebec*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2014

Yves de Jocas  and
Guy Rocher
Yves de Jocas
Affiliation:
Université Laval
Guy Rocher
Affiliation:
Université Laval
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This study deals with what P. Sorokin calls “inter-generation occupational mobility.” It endeavours to ascertain the extent to which occupation is transmitted from father to son, and the occupational transfers that occur when sons do not follow their fathers' occupations. Similarity of occupation between father and son is called occupational stability; change of occupation from father to son is referred to as occupational mobility. Our study is concerned with both occupational stability and occupational mobility.

We started with the conviction that research of this kind can contribute to the knowledge of social stratification and social mobility in the province of Quebec. In fact, it is not easy to study social stratification as such. In almost any contemporary society what we call social stratification is a generalized concept which may refer to one or the other of several scales of stratification depending on the point of view adopted. Sorokin, for example, distinguishes three scales of social stratification. “Concrete forms of social stratification are numerous. The majority of them may, however, be reduced to three principal classes: the economic, the political, and the occupational stratification. As a general rule, these forms are closely intercorrelated with each other.”

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Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science/Revue canadienne de economiques et science politique , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , February 1957 , pp. 57 - 68
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Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association 1957

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This paper was presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association in Montreal, June 8, 1956. The research on which it is based was made possible by funds granted by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. That corporation is not, however, the author, owner, publisher, or proprietor of this study, and is not to be understood as approving, by virtue of its grant, any of the statements made or views expressed therein.

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2 Ibid., 12.

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4 Among the most important are: Davidson, P. E. and Anderson, H. D., Occupational Mobility in an American Community (Stanford, Calif., 1937)Google Scholar; Richard Centers, “Occupational Mobility of Urban Occupational Strata,” American Sociological Review, XIII, 04, 1948, 197–203 Google Scholar; Rogoff, Nathalie, Recent Trends in Occupational Mobility (Glencoe, Ill., 1953)Google Scholar; Glass, ed., Social Mobility in Britain; Bressard, Marcel and Girard, Alain, “Mobilité sociale et dimension de la famille,” Population, V, no. 3, 1950, and VI, no. 1, 1951.Google Scholar

5 Falardeau, Jean-C., ed., Essays on Contemporary Quebec (Québec, 1953), 106, 108.Google Scholar

6 We are most grateful to the Registrar General of the Bureau of Vital Statistics of the province of Quebec for his kind reception and helpful assistance. We are also thankful to the Statistician for the Department of Public Education for his assistance in computing our material.

7 Glass, , ed., Social Mobility in Britain, 218.Google Scholar Italics are the authors'.

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