A Three-Generational Approach to Trends in Occupational Mobility

Secondary analyses of 1947 and 1963 data on three-generational occupational mobility are presented in order to provide additional perspective on the observation made in other studies that there has been a stable pattern of occupational status inheritance in the United States over the past several decades. Findings for males and females in the total samples show that the congruence between respondent's and paternal grandfather's. It is found that when farm owners are excluded the degree of occupational status inheritance is considerably greater between the senior pair of generations. Implications of the findings are discussed.