Empirical study on social mobility before the First World War
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The characteristic form of the social mobility table appeared at the beginning of the 20th century : the aim of this article is to point out the plural emergence of social mobility in a wide range of national and intellectual contexts in Europe before the First World War. With different types of questioning, different forms of analysis developed, some of which were not « reinvented » until after the Second World War.