Abstract
Much of the empirical research on the social stratification process tends to focus on the relation between father's and son's occupational status and, too often, neglects it's dynamic features. This situation changed in the 1980s when sociologists began to use event history analysis in empirical research, but we might not know enough about relations between career mobility and time dependent variables yet.
In this paper, attention is directed toward the conceptual work of career mobility processes. First, we distinguish two types of the dynamic processes in career mobility taking place, and second, present empirical examples for these processes from an analysis of SSM (Social Stratification and social Mobility) data.
