University College London.
Br J Sociol. 2018 Mar;69(1):183-206. doi: 10.1111/1468-4446.12285. Epub 2017 Sep 12.
Several papers published in recent years have revived interest in Sorokin's dissociative thesis: the view that intergenerational social mobility has detrimental effects on the social relationships and wellbeing of individuals. In this paper, I test the dissociative thesis using data from the British Household Panel Survey and Understanding Society. On a wide range of indicators that measure participation in civic associations, contact with parents, close personal relationships, social support, subjective wellbeing, etc. individuals who have achieved long-range upward mobility (i.e. those who move from working class origin to salariat destination) tend to fare better than those who are immobile in the working class. Those who have experienced long-range downward mobility (moving from salariat origin to working class destination) do about as well as second-generation members of the working class. Overall, there is no support for Sorokin's thesis.
近年来发表的几篇论文重新引起了人们对索罗金（Sorokin）的分裂论点的兴趣：即代际社会流动对个人的社会关系和幸福感有不利影响。在本文中，我使用英国家庭面板调查和理解社会的数据来检验分裂论点。在广泛的衡量公民参与、与父母的接触、亲密的个人关系、社会支持、主观幸福感等指标上，实现远距离向上流动的个体（即从工人阶级出身转变为工薪阶层目标的个体）往往比那些在工人阶级中没有流动的个体表现更好。那些经历了远距离向下流动（从工薪阶层出身转变为工人阶级目标）的个体表现与工人阶级的第二代成员大致相同。总的来说，没有证据支持索罗金的论点。
