Social Mobility for the 21st Century: Everyone a Winner?

ISBN-13: 9781138244894 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 184 str.

Steph Lawler; Geoff Payne

Opis

This book presents critical analyses of routes into social mobility, the experience of social mobility, and the political and social implications of social mobility’s ‘panacea’ status. Drawing on the work of established scholars and more recent entrants, the chapters will offer a fresh look at social mobility, opening up the topic to a wider readership among the profession and beyond, and stimulating further debate. This book will appeal to higher level students and scholars of sociology alike, as well as having a broad cross disciplinary appeal.

Recenzje

One of the key strengths of the book is its discussions of mobility experiences of typically under-researched groups and of mobility in differing contexts. Mallman’s chapter documents habitus development of working-class families in Melbourne, Australia; Gardner, Morrin, and Payne’s chapter explores care-leavers’ adaptable habitus in relation to their higher education experiences; Sohl focuses on the racialised and classed experiences of mobility in newly neoliberal Sweden, while Giazitzoglu provides insights into the mobility experiences of self-employed childless men. This widens the scope and appeal of the book to a variety of audiences both in and outside of the United Kingdom.
- Louise Folkes, Cardiff University, UK, Sociological Research Online

Spis treści

Introduction: everyone a winner?, Steph Lawler and Geoff Payne  1. Social Mobility: which ways now?, Geoff Payne  2. Disruption in the working-class family: the early origins of social mobility and habitus clivé, Mark Mallman  3. Mobile immobilities: the formation of habitus in ‘disadvantaged’ families, Maria Gardner, Kirsty Morrin and Geoff Payne  4. Getting up and staying up: understanding social mobility over three generations in Britain, Vikki Boliver and Alice Sullivan  5. Time, accumulation and trajectory: Bourdieu and social mobility, Sam Friedman and Mike Savage  6. Moving on up? Social mobility, class and higher education, Harriet Bradley  7. ‘To become upwardly mobile you have to be a Swede’: women’s upward class mobility in the neo-liberal Swedish welfare state context, Lena Sohl  8. Experiencing upward mobility: the case of self-employed businessmen, Andreas Giazitzoglu  9. Social mobility talk: class-making in neo-liberal times, Steph Lawler  10. Promoting young people's social mobility: applying sociological perspectives to frame social policy objectives, Tony Chapman  11. The cruelty of social mobility: individual success at the cost of collective failure, Diane Reay