John Goldthorpe: Annual Report 2000-2001

John Goldthorpe (Official Fellow) continued to work in the general field of social stratification. With various collaborators, he carried out research into social mobility, with special reference to the changing role of education, and into the relationship between social class and earnings stability and prospects. He also maintained an interest in developments in the theory of social action.

While on sabbatical leave in the Hilary and Trinity terms, he travelled frequently to Germany and Scandinavia giving seminars and teaching short courses usually related to issues raised in his recent book, On Sociology.

In February he helped organise and participated in a Cabinet Office seminar on social mobility; in March he gave the Maxwell Cummings lecture at the University of McGill, Montreal, on 'Mobility, Education and Meritocracy'; and in April he gave a lecture at the Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung on 'Globalisation and Social Class' in conjunction with the opening there of the meeting of the ISA Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility that celebrated the 30th anniversary of its reconstitution.

He became a founder member of the European Academy for Sociology and was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Publications

'Den nuvarande krisen inom sociologin: finns det en väg bortom falsk pluralism?, Sociologisk Forskning, 3-4, 2000.

'Globalisation and Social Class', Mannheimer Vorträger 9, Universität Mannheim und Lorenz von Stein-Gesellschaft, 2001. (with Richard Breen) 'Class, Mobility and Merit', European Sociological Review, 17, 2001.