Education and Intergenerational Social Mobility in Europe and the United States
Author | : Richard Breen |
Publisher | : Studies in Social Inequality |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781503610163 |
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Author | : Richard Breen |
Publisher | : Studies in Social Inequality |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781503610163 |
Author | : Florian R. Hertel |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 2016-08-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3658147857 |
Based on a novel class scheme and a unique compilation of German and American data, this book reveals that intergenerational class mobility increased over most of the past century. While country differences in intergenerational mobility are surprisingly small, gender, regional, racial and ethnic differences were initially large but declined over time. At the end of the 20th century, however, mobility prospects turned to the worse in both countries. In light of these findings, the book develops a narrative account of historical socio-political developments that are likely to have driven the basic resemblances across countries but also account for the initial decline and the more recent increase in intergenerational inequality.
Author | : Daniel P. McMurrer |
Publisher | : The Urban Insitute |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780877666745 |
Adapted in part from the "Opportunity in America" series of policy briefs, this volume focuses on social and economic mobility in the United States. Class or family background has a strong effect on individual success, the authors find. They examine the possible reasons for this relationship; how it has changed over the past century; and the role of the economy, the welfare system, and education in opening up opportunities for the less fortunate.
Author | : Leonard Beeghley |
Publisher | : Allyn & Bacon |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Social classes |
ISBN | : 9780205530526 |
This text examines the structure of stratification in the United States, focusing on the way one's class location influences his or her life opportunities. Beeghley uses three themes to illustrate social stratification: How power influences the distribution of resources in the United States; how social structure influences rates of events; and how social psychological factors influence how individuals act on, and react to, the situations in which they find themselves.
Author | : Lee Elliot Major |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2018-09-27 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0241317037 |
What are the effects of decreasing social mobility? How does education help - and hinder - us in improving our life chances? Why are so many of us stuck on the same social rung as our parents? Apart from the USA, Britain has the lowest social mobility in the Western world. The lack of movement in who gets where in society - particularly when people are stuck at the bottom and the top - costs the nation dear, both in terms of the unfulfilled talents of those left behind and an increasingly detached elite, disinterested in improvements that benefit the rest of society. This book analyses cutting-edge research into how social mobility has changed in Britain over the years, the shifting role of schools and universities in creating a fairer future, and the key to what makes some countries and regions so much richer in opportunities, bringing a clearer understanding of what works and how we can better shape our future.
Author | : Susan C. Boyle |
Publisher | : Dissertations-G |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Nathan J. Keirns |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 513 |
Release | : 2015-03-17 |
Genre | : Sociology |
ISBN | : 9781938168413 |
"This text is intended for a one-semester introductory course."--Page 1.
Author | : Sociological Resources for the Social Studies (Project) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Social mobility |
ISBN | : |
Author | : OECD |
Publisher | : OECD Publishing |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2018-06-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9264301089 |
This report provides new evidence on social mobility in the context of increased inequalities of income and opportunities in OECD and selected emerging economies. It covers the aspects of both, social mobility between parents and children and of personal income mobility over the life course, ...
Author | : Vegard Iversen |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 506 |
Release | : 2021-12-17 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0192650734 |
Social mobility is the hope of economic development and the mantra of a good society. There are disagreements about what constitutes social mobility, but there is broad agreement that people should have roughly equal chances of success regardless of their economic status at birth. Concerns about rising inequality have engendered a renewed interest in social mobility—especially in the developing world. However, efforts to construct the databases and meet the standards required for conventional analyses of social mobility are at a preliminary stage and need to be complemented by innovative, conceptual, and methodological advances. If forms of mobility have slowed in the West, then we might be entering an age of rigid stratification with defined boundaries between the always-haves and the never-haves-which does not augur well for social stability. Social mobility research is ongoing, with substantive findings in different disciplines—typically with researchers in isolation from each other. A key contribution of this book is the pulling together of the emerging streams of knowledge. Generating policy-relevant knowledge is a principal concern. Three basic questions frame the study of diverse aspects of social mobility in the book. How to assess the extent of social mobility in a given development context when the datasets by conventional measurement techniques are unavailable? How to identify drivers and inhibitors of social mobility in particular developing country contexts? How to acquire the knowledge required to design interventions to raise social mobility, either by increasing upward mobility or by lowering downward mobility?