Verbal ability and socioeconomic success: a trend analysis

Article Abstract:

The cognitive ability of Americans is historically demonstrated by verbal ability tests administered by the General Social Survey (GSS), but the test is unrepresentative of the underclass and elite members of society. It does not measure childhood ability and the WORDSUM test is too narrowly defined and short. Richard Hernstein and Charles Murray claim cognitive sorting is increasing in income, occupational standing and education, with children's cognitive ability stratified by their economic and social background, but these hypotheses are not supported by the verbal ability tests.

Testing, Social economics, Socioeconomics, Verbal ability, Cognition in children, Cognitive development

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Socialist stratification and mobility: cross-national and gender differences in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland

Article Abstract:

A study indicates regular variations between the mobility structures of socialist and capitalist societies. Furthermore, a detailed analysis of the mobility of men and women in three former socialist societies of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland shows that the socialist mobility regime varies from the capitalist one by at least two major ways: the presence of long-range upward and downward mobility and the large outflow of farmers to other locations. It is also found that gender and class co act to produce definite mobility paradigms even within socialist societies.

Analysis, Society, Social classes, Social mobility, Social class, Migration, Internal, Internal migration, Occupational mobility, Socialism and society

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Trends in occupational mobility in Hungary under socialism

Article Abstract:

Gender differences in occupational mobility still exists in Hungary and restratification is believed to have occured after the socialist revolution. There is a lower possibility for women to continue their father's occupation when compared to men. However, occupational origins restrict the extent of mobility of women in other occupational areas. Gender differences continue to persist in occupational opportunities and signs indicate that although short-term modifications might occur, continuing long-term changes might be difficult to be achieved in its society.

Social aspects, Economic aspects, Hungary, Employment, Employment discrimination, Labor mobility

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