Books on Social Mobility
Horizontal Social
Mobility, Vertical Social Mobility, Social Mobility, Stratification
Social
Mobility In Europe Book by Richard Breen (Editor)
Analyzing
Inequality: Life Chances And Social Mobility In Comparative Perspective (Studies in
Social Inequality) Book by Stefan Svallfors (Editor)
Class-Passing:
Social Mobility In Film And Popular Culture by Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
Social
Mobility and Modernization: A Journal of Interdisciplinary History Reader Robert I.
Rotberg
Social
Mobility and Class Structure in Modern Britain Book by John H. Goldthorpe
Pathways
to Social Class: A Qualitative Approach to Social Mobility Daniel Bertaux, Paul
Thompson
New
Markets, New Opportunities?: Economic and Social Mobility in a Changing World Book by
Nancy Birdsall, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Carol Graham
Ethnicity,
Social Mobility, and Public Policy : Comparing the USA and UK Book by Glenn C.
Loury (Editor), Tariq Modood (Editor), Steven M. Teles (Editor)
Class-Passing:
Social Mobility In Film And Popular Culture by Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
Getting
Ahead: Economic and Social Mobility in America by Daniel P. McMurrer, Isabel V.
Sawhill
The
Just Meritocracy : IQ, Class Mobility, and American Social Policy Paul Kamolnick
A
Notion at Risk: Preserving Public Education as an Engine for Social Mobility
Book by Richard D. Kahlenberg (Editor)
Social
Structure and Social Mobility (American Cities, Vol 7) Book by Neil Larry Shumsky
The
Social Mobility of Women: Beyond Male Mobility Models Book by Geoff Payne, Pamela
Abbott (Editor)
Reviews:
Social
Mobility In Europe Book by Richard Breen (Editor)
Social Mobility in Europe is the most comprehensive study to date of trends in
intergenerational social mobility. Study uses data from 11 European countries covering the
last 30 years of the twentieth century to analyze differences between countries and
changes through time. Findings question several long-standing views about social mobility.
A growing similarity between countries in their class structures and rates of absolute
mobility: the countries of Europe are now more alike in their flows between class origins
and destinations than they were thirty years ago. However, differences between countries
in social fluidity (that is, the relative chances, between people of different class
origins, of being found in given class destinations) show no reduction and so there is no
evidence supporting theories of modernization which predict such convergence. Our results
also contradict the long-standing Featherman Jones Hauser hypothesis of a basic similarity
in social fluidity in all industrial societies 'with a market economy and a nuclear family
system'. There are considerable differences between countries like Israel and Sweden,
where societal openness is very marked, and Italy, France, and Germany, where social
fluidity rates are low. Similarly, there is a substantial difference between, for example,
the Netherlands in the 1970s (which was quite closed) and in the 1990s, when it ranks
among the most open societies. Mobility tables reflect many underlying processes and this
makes it difficult to explain mobility and fluidity or to provide policy prescriptions.
Analyzing
Inequality: Life Chances And Social Mobility In Comparative Perspective (Studies in
Social Inequality) Book by Stefan Svallfors (Editor)
"Analyzing Inequality" summarizes key issues in todays theoretically
guided empirical research in social inequality, life course, and cross-national
comparative sociology. It describes the progress made in terms of data sources, both
cross-sectional as well as longitudinal; the new instruments that make inequality research
possible; new ways of thinking and explaining; and empirical findings, or important
contributions of rigorous empirical research to our understanding.
Class-Passing:
Social Mobility In Film And Popular Culture Book by Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
Oprah Winfrey, Donald Trump, Roseanne Barr, and Britney Spears typify
class-passersthose who claim different socioeconomic classes as their
ownasserts Gwendolyn Audrey Foster in Class-Passing: Social Mobility in Film and
Popular Culture. According to new rules of social standing in American popular culture,
class is no longer defined by wealth, birth, or education. Instead, todays notion of
class reflects a socially constructed and regulated series of performed acts and gestures
rooted in the cult of celebrity.
In examining the quest for class mobility, Foster deftly traces class-passing through the
landscape of popular films, reality television shows, advertisements, the Internet, and
video games. She deconstructs the politics of celebrity, fashion, and conspicuous
consumerism and analyzes class-passing as it relates to the American Dream, gender, and
marriage.
Class-Passing draws on dozens of examples from popular culture, from old movie classics
and contemporary films to print ads and cyberspace, to illustrate how flagrant displays of
wealth that were once unacceptable under the old rules of behavior are now flaunted by
class-passing celebrities. From the construction worker in Who Wants to Marry a
Millionaire? to the privileged socialites Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie of The Simple
Life, Foster explores the fantasy of contact between the classes. She also refers to
television class-passers from The Apprentice, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, and Survivor
and notable class-passing achievers Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Martha Stewart.
Class-Passing is a notable examination of the historical, social, and ideological shifts
in expressions of class. The first serious book of its kind, Class-Passing is fresh,
innovative, and invaluable for students and scholars of film, television, and popular
culture.
"Class-Passing is positively overflowing with ideas and insights, teeming with
splendid observations of an original and challenging nature. Fosters ability to link
class with issues of race, gender, and the body is quite marvelous and convincing.
Class-Passing is very much in the forefront of contemporary film and cultural studies,
superior in every way." David Desser, University of Illinois
"At a time when studies of social class in media representation have taken a back
seat to analyses of race and gender, Class Passing, in daring and original fashion, maps
and elaborates on contradictions in performing social class via the media and popular
culture. The book is commendable for the range of examples that illustrate continuities
and changes in representations of social class as well as their relation to treatments of
race and gender. Fosters innovative analysis is not restricted to cinema but
includes television, advertising, etiquette books, popular manuals, and video games,
providing a broad field from which to assess the character and vicissitudes of class
passing." Marcia Landy, University of Pittsburgh
Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, a professor of film studies, womens studies, and cultural
studies in the Department of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, is the author
of eight books. Her most recent book, Performing Whiteness: Postmodern Re/Constructions in
the Cinema, was named an outstanding title in the humanities for 2004 by Choice.
Social
Mobility and Modernization: A Journal of Interdisciplinary History Reader Book by
Robert I. Rotberg (Editor)
The essays in this book examine how the West modernized and what that modernization meant
to human society, particularly in Western Europe and the United States. Within that frame
are several distinct subthemes: the process of industrialization in Europe and elsewhere;
social mobility, class structures, and class differences; social unrest and the stresses
of modernization and industrialization; economic and social equality and inequality and
their markers; the role of women in modernization; and the origins of nationalism. The
book's chapters discuss these issues from medieval times through the twentieth century,
with particular focus on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Social
Mobility and Class Structure in Modern Britain Book by John H. Goldthorpe
The second edition of this classic study, fully updated and extended, now includes an
analysis of recent trends in intergenerational mobility, the class mobility of women, and
views of social mobility in modern Britain from a cross-national perspective.
Pathways
to Social Class: A Qualitative Approach to Social Mobility Book by Daniel Bertaux,
Paul Thompson
Calling for a broader new approach to social mobility research which goes beyond
statistics and utilizes life stories and family case histories, this richly suggestive
volume explores sociological issues such as transmission between family generations, how
immigrants make good, how social elites survive revolutions, and the meanings of houses,
places and dreams for mobility.
New
Markets, New Opportunities?: Economic and Social Mobility in a Changing World Book by
Nancy Birdsall (Editor), Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Editor), Carol Graham
(Editor)
Many of the countries that have recently converted to a market-based economic system have
also experienced an alarming increase in income inequality a widening gap between the
haves and have nots. But to what extent is the increase in inequality also increasing the
opportunities for economic advancement particularly for those at the bottom of the
economic ladder? Does the creation of greater opportunities make a region's move to the
market politically acceptable? And, if opportunities don't increase along with inequality,
will it eventually cause a political backlash against a country's market policies?
This book highlights the importance of finding the answers to those questions by examining
the issues of social mobility and opportunity as an essential part of the income
inequality puzzle. It provides a summary of the latest research on the economics and
politics of social mobility in both developed and emerging market economies, including the
conceptual issues involved and the challenges of accurately documenting trends. The book
concludes with a discussion of the economics of opportunity and mobility in Latin America
and Eastern Europe, and the politics and perceptions of mobility in the two regions.
Ethnicity,
Social Mobility, and Public Policy : Comparing the USA and UK Book by Glenn C.
Loury (Editor), Tariq Modood (Editor), Steven M. Teles (Editor)
The causes and consequences of social mobility are a central area of study within the
social sciences and the differing levels of economic development between ethnic groups is
an issue of major concern for policy-makers. Written by leading scholars with a wide range
of expertise, this book is the first to provide a comparative analysis of these and
related issues within the US and the UK and includes such topics as education, work and
employment, political mobilization and social networks.
Glenn C. Loury is Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute on Race and Social
Division at Boston University. Tariq Modood is Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public
Policy and founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship,
University of Bristol. He has published extensively and was awarded the MBE for services
to social science and ethnic relations in 2001. Steven M. Teles is Assistant Professor of
Politics at Brandeis University. He has published books and articles on a wide range of
topics including welfare, affirmative
action, devolution in the UK and EU.
Getting
Ahead: Economic and Social Mobility in America Book by Daniel P. McMurrer, Isabel V.
Sawhill
Adapted in part from the Opportunity in America series of policy briefs, this volume
focuses on social and economic mobility in the United States. The authors find that class
or family background has a strong effect on individual success. 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.
The
Just Meritocracy : IQ, Class Mobility, and American Social Policy Book by Paul
Kamolnick
The author provides a detailed investigation of the facts surrounding human mental
ability, its measurement, inheritability, possible neurobiological underpinnings, and its
role as a currency in human mate choice. He links human mental ability with educational
attainment, occupational attainment, occupational prestige, and earned income. The ethical
and policy implications are profound for both liberal democratic and libertarian social
thought.
PAUL KAMOLNICK is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at
East Tennessee State University.
A
Notion at Risk: Preserving Public Education as an Engine for Social Mobility
Book by Richard D. Kahlenberg (Editor)
The 2000 presidential campaign is ushering in a renewed focus on public education. The
question is, What would be best for our children?
This volume of essays seeks to restore the notion that public education should be an
engine for social mobility, a concern that animated Brown v. Board of Education and the
1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act. It identifies the leading sources of
inequality - both in the home and in school - and proposes concrete public policy
remedies. The authors also examine the strengths and weaknesses of summer schooling,
federal aid to education, standards, teacher enhancement, charter schools, and zero
tolerance policies.
The contributors include Doris Entwisle, Karl Alexander, and Linda Olson, Johns Hopkins
University; Richard Rothstein, Economic Policy Institute and Occidental College; Adam
Gamaron, University of Wisconsin; Linda Darling-Hammond, Stanford University; Amy Stuart
Wells, Jennifer Jellison Holme, Alejandra Lopez, and Camille Wilson Cooper, University of
California at Los Angeles; Paul Barton, Educational Testing Service; and Ruy Teixeira, The
Century Foundation.
Richard D. Kahlenberg is a senior fellow at The Century Foundation and author of The
Remedy: Race, Class, and Affirmative Action (Basic Books, 1996).
Uprooting
Children: Mobility, Social Captial, and Mexican-American Underachievement (The New
Americans) Book by Robert Ketner Ream
A critical issue facing U.S. schools is the persistent disparity in achievement between
racial/ethnic groups. The achievement gap is particularly pronounced for
Mexican-Americans. By employing mixed-methods research techniques, Read links emergent
literature on social capital with research on student mobility to investigate student
performance among Mexican-American and non-Latino White adolescents. Findings underscore
the prevalence of student mobility, particularly among Mexican-origin youth, and its
impingement on both the availability and convertibility of the resources embedded in their
social networks. Results also suggest that minority and non-minority students fortify
social ties in different ways, and that these differences have implications for the
educational utility of social capital.
Robert K. Ream is currently a RAND/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Education
Policy in Santa Monica. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa
Barbara in 2001 and recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton
Universitys Office of Population Research.
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