ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the relationships between several aspects of socioeconomic careers and fairly radical historical changes in socio-economic structure. It discusses a few cohort-specific career consequences of historical changes in Hungary during the period between 1932 and 1973. The chapter shows certain kinds of changes in three different aspects of socio-economic careers: the kinds of positions persons were likely to hold, gender-based differences in the types of positions held and the intergenerational association in social status. A few pictures have been selected from the larger story in order to highlight some points about careers and great social change. The chapter analyzes intergenerational social mobility tables classifying sampled respondents by their father's social stratum and by their own social stratum in each year, for each category of birth cohort by gender. Similar though perhaps weaker constraints are involved in changes in intergenerational social mobility.
