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Social Mobility for the 21st Century

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Everyone a Winner?

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Social Mobility for the 21st Century book

Everyone a Winner?
BySteph Lawler, Geoff Payne
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2018
eBook Published 23 January 2018
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351996808
Pages 198
eBook ISBN 9781315276588
Subjects Economics, Finance, Business & Industry, Education, Geography, Social Sciences
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Lawler, S., & Payne, G. (2018). Social Mobility for the 21st Century: Everyone a Winner? (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351996808

ABSTRACT

Social Mobility for the 21st Century addresses experiences of social mobility, and the detailed processes through which entrenched, intergenerationally transmitted privilege is reproduced. Contributions include (but are not limited to) family relationships, students’ encounters with higher education, narratives of work careers, and ‘mobility identities’. The book intends to challenge both the framework of the more traditional approach, and the politicisation of mobility which casts ‘mobility’ as a possession, a commodity or a character trait, and threatens to castigate the ‘non-mobile’ as carrying a personal responsibility for their situation.

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 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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |12 pages

Introduction

Everyone a winner?
BySteph Lawler, Geoff Payne

chapter 1|12 pages

Social mobility

Which ways now?
ByGeoff Payne

chapter 2|12 pages

Disruption in the working-class family

The early origins of social mobility and habitus clivé
ByMark Mallman

chapter 3|17 pages

Mobile immobilities

The formation of habitus in ‘disadvantaged’ families
ByMaria Gardner, Kirsty Morrin, Geoff Payne

chapter 4|13 pages

Getting up and staying up

Understanding social mobility over three generations in Britain
ByVikki Boliver, Alice Sullivan

chapter 5|13 pages

Time, accumulation and trajectory

Bourdieu and social mobility
BySam Friedman, Mike Savage

chapter 6|13 pages

Moving on up?

Social mobility, class and higher education
ByHarriet Bradley

chapter 7|12 pages

‘To become upwardly mobile you have to be a Swede’

Women’s upward class mobility in the neo-liberal Swedish welfare state context
ByLena Sohl

chapter 8|13 pages

Experiencing upward mobility

The case of self-employed businessmen
ByAndreas Giazitzoglu

chapter 9|15 pages

Social mobility talk

Class-making in neo-liberal times
BySteph Lawler

chapter 10|13 pages

Promoting young people’s social mobility

Applying sociological perspectives to frame social policy objectives
ByTony Chapman

chapter 11|12 pages

The cruelty of social mobility

Individual success at the cost of collective failure
ByDiane Reay
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