Cleavage and lineages in social mobility: an approach to the development of a demanding theoretical tradition

• Published in: Revista Latina de Sociología
• Main Author: Boado Martínez, Marcelo
• Other Authors: Universidad de la República, INCASI (Red Internacional para el Análisis Comparado de las Desigualdades Sociales)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidade da Coruña 2017
• Subjects: Social mobility; social reproduction; social class analysis; movilidad social; fluidez constante; teoría sociológica; metodología; Breen; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://revistas.udc.es/index.php/RELASO/article/view/2016.6.2.1972; https://doi.org/10.17979/relaso.2016.6.2.1972

Studies of social mobility are among the most demanding, ambitious and controversial in sociology, because they generally attack very sensitive problems from a theoretical, methodological and public point of view. Mobility studies are studies of sociology, because they challenge the "quality" of society as a whole to generate opportunities or to establish inequalities for its members. The concepts of lineage and cleavage applied to the mobility studies allow to reflect the empirical results, but also the dominant theoretical sequences. This way of examining research on inheritance and social mobility leads to the analysis of the changes and conceptual inertiathat have proliferated in this area, mainly in the North Atlantic countries. It is important how the analysis of social change itself generates its continuities and ruptures. Therefore the present will be a theoretical article, which reviews and reorders concepts, tasks and challenges for sociological research in social mobility. There is no doubt that there are other ways to do this, as shown by Erikson and Goldthorpe (1993), Ganzeboom and Treiman (1996), Hout and Di Prete (2004), and Breen and Luijkx (2004). But our preference for identifying continuity or abandonment, problems, ideas and methods, with notions of lineage and cleavage, allow us to equidistance, and the recovery of a certain dialogue, which is a sine qua non, to illustrate and convince El trabajo busca reordenar y caracterizar el trabajo teórico y metodológico en las investigaciones sobre movilidad social a nivel internacional. El objetivo es establecer un diálogo entre las diferentes posiciones, y hacer explícitos algunos supuestos principales. Los conceptos de linaje y clivaje brindan utilidad necesaria para señalar rupturas y continuidades teóricas. La reflexión final destaca las nuevas condiciones en las que debería de rearmarse el debate e intercambio sobre el tema, dados los importantes cambios socio-económicos a nivel internacional.