ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on one of the variables: industrialization. It explains how the views of social theorists about industrialization reflect and are virtually inseparable from their views about social mobility. The men discussed are C. Wright Mills, W. Lloyd Warner, and more briefly, David Riesman, Henry Aiken, Nathan Glazer, Paul Jacobs, Gabriel Kolko, John Galbraith, Harrington and Christopher Lasch. Mills' symbolic representations have caught many images which dominate today's critiques of the urban and industrial scene. He welds seamlessly some of the older images to the newer, and perhaps is able to do so precisely because he thought the nation was experiencing a momentous transformation. Warner had paid special attention to occupations and education as primary institutional avenues to individual mobility. He had described a few stages of mobility explored whereby a man moved upward.
