ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on social class that has been associated with a critique of the view that social mobility is the product of individual attributes; generally Savage and Butler. Focusing on the dynamic nature of social mobility, that is, its intergenerational and intragenerational aspects. There are two major contributions that one can make with an intragenerational focus. It is often assumed that occupational achievement at a point in time or a stage in one's class career adequately captures or summarises the final destination. The National Child Development Study 1958 (NCDS) and the British Cohort Study 1970 (BCS) are two ongoing cohort studies that follow the lives of all children born in a certain week in those years. Sturgis and Sullivan are used latent class growth analysis in a manner similar to the present study in order to examine a series of patterns in occupational class attainment.
