John Goldthorpe

John Harry Goldthorpe (born 27 May 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.

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 sociology. 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.

Goldthorpe is also well-known for his work on the embourgeoisement thesis which he dispelled in 1963; or his contributions to rational choice theory. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1984.He was a student of Norbert Elias.

Works

*2004 "The economic basis of social class". London: Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics.
*2000 "On sociology: numbers, narratives, and the integration of research and theory". Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-829571-5
*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 0-19-827383-5
*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 0-19-827286-3
*1963 "The affluent worker: political attitudes and behaviour". Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-07204-2