ABSTRACT
This chapter contains two studies of intra-generational mobility, one a survey of labor mobility in Great Britain, the other a study of social mobility in Japan. Both studies collected data on the first and present job of respondents and thus permit a direct comparison of results, and also a very limited comparison with American data, since the Oakland study and a much earlier San Jose study have information on these two career points. The major conclusion drawn from the comparative survey of data on the occupations of fathers and sons was that advanced industrial societies possess similar rates of social mobility. This is supported by the fact that industrial societies as diverse as those of England, Japan and the United States show close similarity in the social distance which respondents in these countries have traversed in the course of their occupational careers.
