Glass Social Fluidity Index Calculator
Compute the cross-product association odds ratio for a two-by-two mobility table; larger values indicate stronger class persistence and therefore less social fluidity.
Description
Compute the cross-product association odds ratio for a two-by-two mobility table; larger values indicate stronger class persistence and therefore less social fluidity.
Glass Social Fluidity Index Calculator is a focused tool for the following task. Compute the cross-product association odds ratio for a two-by-two mobility table; larger values indicate stronger class persistence and therefore less social fluidity. It reports Class association odds ratio from the values you provide rather than inventing measurements, coefficients, or professional judgment that are not part of the input.
When to use Glass Social Fluidity Index
Use this sociology calculation to reproduce a named demographic, inequality, mobility, urban, or survey measure when the population, period, categories, and coding rules are explicit.
- Mobility counts
- Required list. Two-by-two counts: inherited status and mobility into and out of the top category.
The cited overview of Sociology supplies background for the terminology and domain context used by this tool.1
How Glass Social Fluidity Index works
Compute the cross-product association odds ratio for a two-by-two mobility table; larger values indicate stronger class persistence and therefore less social fluidity. Inputs are interpreted exactly in the displayed units and the calculation returns the following fields without presentation rounding.
- Class association odds ratio
- Returned number. Association odds ratio; values above one mean inheritance outweighs exchange and imply lower fluidity.
Limitations and assumptions
- Definitions, sampling error, missing data, historical context, geographic boundaries, weighting, and classification choices can materially change social indicators and their interpretation.
- Use finite inputs in the displayed units, preserve source measurements and assumptions, and independently verify consequential decisions.
Alternative or Complementary approaches
Report the source population and uncertainty, inspect disaggregated data, and compare multiple accepted indicators rather than treating one summary statistic as a complete social explanation.
References
-
Sociology — Wikipedia contributors
Similar or alternative tools
- Hollingshead ABI Status Index Calculator
Compute the Hollingshead Two Factor Index of social position as occupation times seven plus education times four.
- Stouffer Intervening Opportunities Access Ratio Calculator
Compute an access-ratio heuristic as opportunities at a destination divided by opportunities encountered before it; this is not the cumulative Stouffer formulation for migration probability.
- Class Reproduction Odds Ratio Calculator
Quantify class inheritance with the odds ratio comparing top-origin sons staying on top against bottom-origin sons rising.