John H. Goldthorpe (born 1935) is a British sociologist. He is emeritus of Nuffield College, Oxford. He works in the areas of social stratification, macrosociology, and recently cultural consumption. Jump to: navigation, search 1935 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Sociology is the study of the social lives of humans, groups and societies. ... Nuffield College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. ... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... Social stratification is a sociological term for the hierarchical arrangement of social classes, castes, and strata within a society. ... Macrosociology is one of the main branches of sociology (contrast with microsociology) which deals with primarily with the statistical nature of society. ...

John Goldthorpe has contributed to the understanding of social mobility. His work on social class led to the well-established Goldthorpe class schema, one of the standard approaches to classify class in sciology. The Goldthorpe class schema is based on eleven classes, which are grouped into three main clusters—the service class, the intermediate class, and the working class. Jump to: navigation, search Social mobility is the degree to which, in a given society, an individuals social status may change throughout the course of his or her life. ... Service class people (служилые люди in Russian) - persons bound by obligations of service, especially military service, to the Muscovite Russian state. ...

Goldthorpe is also well-known for his work on the embourgeoisement thesis which he dispelled in 1963; or his contributions to rational choice theory. The embourgeoisement thesis is the argument that, contrary to the class conflict theory of Karl Marx (1818-1883), increasing numbers of what might traditionally be classified as working class people are coming to assume the lifestyle and individualistic values of the so-called middle classes, and hence reject commitment to... Jump to: navigation, search 1963 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Rational choice theory is a way of looking at deliberations between a number of potential courses of action, in which rationality of one form or another is used either to decide which course of action would be the best to take, or to predict which course of action actually will...

Works

• 2004 The economic basis of social class. London: Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics and Political Science.
• 2000 On sociology: numbers, narratives, and the integration of research and theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198295715
• 1996 Rational choice theory and large-scale data analysis. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• 1992 The constant flux: a study of class mobility in industrial societies. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0198273835
• 1992 Revised class schema. London: Social and Community Planning Research.
• 1989 The uses of history in sociology: reflections on some recent tendencies. Oxford: Nuffield College.
• 1987 Social mobility and class structure in modern Britain. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0198272863
• 1963 The affluent worker: political attitudes and behaviour. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521072042