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Is the Japanese Mobility Pattern Consistent?: Educational Expansion and its Effects
Author(s) -
Seiyama Kazuo
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
international journal of japanese sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.133
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 1475-6781
pISSN - 0918-7545
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-6781.1993.tb00014.x
Subject(s) - consistency (knowledge bases) , social mobility , industrialisation , variance (accounting) , longitudinal study , economic geography , econometrics , psychology , sociology , economics , computer science , social science , mathematics , statistics , market economy , accounting , artificial intelligence
Current empirical studies on social mobility generally emphasize an invariance of mobility pattern rather than variance. However, the industrialization thesis has not yet seriously been challenged by those researches, since they are only comparing different countries, not different developmental stages of one country. Besides, those researches have provided virtually no theoretical explanation for the invariance. This paper is an attempt to provide a longitudinal analysis of Japanese social mobility and to give an explanation for the consistency of mobility pattern found in that analysis. The key factor related to the consistency is the way education mediates the mobility. Our analysis presents a clear and exact picture of the longitudinal effect of educational expansion on the mobility pattern.