Social mobility books

The past two decades have seen a global financial crisis, increasing levels of inequality, a pandemic and the intensification...  Read More >>

The past two decades have seen a global financial crisis, increasing levels of inequality, a pandemic and the intensification...  Read More >>

Education is seen as central to social mobility and equality and, following a drive to raise learners' aspirations,...  Read More >>

Looking at the Finnish–Russian borderland as a transnational space and claiming that there is a need to understand...  Read More >>

Social mobility is about climbing the societal ladder, or switching to a better, more promising or rewarding position....  Read More >>

With new commentary, Austerity Bites 10 Years On assesses on the true scale of the damage austerity policies have...  Read More >>

We're all getting poorer. What does that look like for British children, and their life chances?  Read More >>

Examining this pressing field of study in an underexplored regional context, this book takes a refreshing new angle...  Read More >>

This volume provides a comprehensive and evenhanded overview of the escalating college affordability crisis in the...  Read More >>

Based on a three-year life story study of students from working-class backgrounds at four elite universities in...  Read More >>

A unique study of the interplay between race and local power dynamics in the American South which connects family...  Read More >>

Alex Fenton sets out a sociological approach to analyzing how official statistics are produced by government agencies,...  Read More >>

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This Element investigates inequality in Latin America through a unique case of class integration in Colombian higher...  Read More >>

An illuminating look at the emotional costs of mobility faced by first-generation and low-income college students....  Read More >>

An illuminating look at the emotional costs of mobility faced by first-generation and low-income college students....  Read More >>

'One of the best books I have ever read about the complexities of poverty . . . one of the most remarkable people...  Read More >>

Contemporary Asian societies bear the imprint of the experience and afterlives of colonialism, revolutionary socialism...  Read More >>

After four decades broadcasting to the nation each night, Jon Snow finally gives vent to his opinions on the state...  Read More >>

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The high-wire true story of the millionaire trader, who won the finance game and then blew it wide open 'If you...  Read More >>

The high-wire true story of the millionaire trader, who won the finance game and then blew it wide open 'If you...  Read More >>

Despite the high aspirations of young people from disadvantaged communities, they face barriers that are frustrating...  Read More >>

A study of British and American Utopian writing of the 1800s in the context of developments in real architectural,...  Read More >>

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