“…Sociological research in Brazil has focused primarily on class mobility, defined by the aggregation of occupations with similar labour relations (Ribeiro, 2007(Ribeiro, , 2012Scalon, 1999;Torche & Ribeiro, 2010;Pastore & Silva, 2000;Pastore, 1981). As a result of the decline in income inequality, however, classes (occupational clusters) are no longer able to capture important changes in socioeconomic status, given that inequality diminished both within social classes and between them (Carvalhaes, et al, 2014).…”