Stepping Into the Elite: Trajectories of Social Achievement in India, France, and the United States

ISBN-13: 9780199487240 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 344 str.

Jules Naudet; Renuka George

Opis

The experience of shifting from one social class to another, from a dominated group to a dominant group, raises the question of how the upwardly mobile person relates to his group of origin. This book highlights the particular way in which social achievers deal with this radical identity transformation in cultural contexts as different as India, France and the United States.

Recenzje

In short, Stepping into the Elite is a fascinating book that provides key contributions to sociological understandings of class stratification and mobility in an international perspective. It is also, at its core, a profound work of cultural sociology that sheds critical insights into how culture shapes our perceptions of and experiences within systems of social inequality.

O autorze

Jules Naudet is an alumnus of Sciences Po Paris and of the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales and holds a doctorate in Sociology. His doctoral research focused on a comparative analysis of the experience of upward social mobility in France, India, and the United-States. He carried out his postdoctoral research at the Centre Maurice Halbwachs (EHESS/ENS/CNRS), working on the representation of poverty by inhabitants of upper-class neighborhoods in Paris, Delhi, and São-Paulo. He was head of the Political and Society division of the CSH (New Delhi) from 2012 to 2016 and is currently research fellow at CNRS, France