ABSTRACT
It was explained in Chapter II that the study of the social prestige of occupations reported there was undertaken to provide a grouping which might be used in a new investigation of social mobility in Britain. The purpose of the present chapter is to give an account of the nature of that investigation. The results are not given here; they are analysed and interpreted in other chapters which deal with specific aspects of the question of social mobility. 1 But before presenting those results it is necessary to show from what kind of inquiry they derive.
