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| Title |
Surnames and Social Mobility in England, 1170–2012
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| Published in |
Human Nature, November 2014
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| DOI | 10.1007/s12110-014-9219-y |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Gregory Clark, Neil Cummins |
| Abstract |
Using educational status in England from 1170 to 2012, we show that the rate of social mobility in any society can be estimated from knowledge of just two facts: the distribution over time of surnames in the society and the distribution of surnames among an elite or underclass. Such surname measures reveal that the typical estimate of parent-child correlations in socioeconomic measures in the range of 0.2-0.6 are misleading about rates of overall social mobility. Measuring education status through Oxbridge attendance suggests a generalized intergenerational correlation in status in the range of 0.70-0.90. Social status is more strongly inherited even than height. This correlation is unchanged over centuries. Social mobility in England in 2012 was little greater than in preindustrial times. Thus there are indications of an underlying social physics surprisingly immune to government intervention. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 376 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 58 | 15% |
| United States | 45 | 12% |
| France | 25 | 7% |
| Canada | 6 | 2% |
| Turkey | 5 | 1% |
| Germany | 5 | 1% |
| Australia | 5 | 1% |
| Japan | 4 | 1% |
| Netherlands | 4 | 1% |
| Other | 39 | 10% |
| Unknown | 180 | 48% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 318 | 85% |
| Scientists | 37 | 10% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 11 | 3% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 10 | 3% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 75 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 3% |
| Russia | 1 | 1% |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 71 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 19 | 25% |
| Researcher | 15 | 20% |
| Student > Master | 9 | 12% |
| Other | 6 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 4 | 5% |
| Other | 14 | 19% |
| Unknown | 8 | 11% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences | 21 | 28% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 19 | 25% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 5 | 7% |
| Psychology | 5 | 7% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 4 | 5% |
| Other | 10 | 13% |
| Unknown | 11 | 15% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 454. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 March 2024.
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