Research
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 has contributed to the understanding of social mobility. Goldthorpe is also well known for his work on the embourgeoisement thesis which he dispelled in 1963.
He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1984. He is also a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences since 2001.
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