Social mobility books

Professor Ueda's book discusses the reasons for the modernisation of the high school at the turn of the twentieth...  Read More >>

Rewarding Strivers presents provocative research and analysis that provides a blueprint for the way forward. —William...  Read More >>

This book sets out, with remarkable clarity and insight, the contradictions of mobile societies and of mobile lives....  Read More >>

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In Social Mobility Myths, Peter Saunders, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Sussex, sets out...  Read More >>

Moving to Opportunity tackles one of America's most enduring dilemmas: the great, unresolved question of how to...  Read More >>

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Moving to Opportunity tackles one of America's most enduring dilemmas: the great, unresolved question of how to...  Read More >>

As global flows of goods, capital, information, and people accelerate competitive pressure on businesses throughout...  Read More >>

This book is one of the first ethnographic studies to examine the complexities of lifestyles of the the upwardly...  Read More >>

We think we know what upward mobility stories are about - virtuous striving justly rewarded, or unprincipled social...  Read More >>

This volume explores theoretical and practical aspects of economic discrimination and social exclusion in modern...  Read More >>

SMS Uprisings: Mobile activism in Africa brings together the experiences of activists using mobile phone technology...  Read More >>

The French writer Arnold van Gennep first called attention to the phenomena of status passages in his Rites of Passage...  Read More >>

In the final declaration of their 8th conference, the European ministers responsible for migration affairs committed...  Read More >>

The book concentrates on socially excluded minorities looking at why such groups remain among ""the poorest of the...  Read More >>

Drawing on more than 100 interviews with diverse families across America, Mooney explores the financial struggles...  Read More >>

"The steady expansion of college enrollment rates over the last generation has been heralded as a major step toward...  Read More >>

This book provides a detailed and comprehensive account of the status of Dalits in contemporary India. It delineates...  Read More >>

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This book focuses on public opinion on issues related to the theory of meritocracy. It employs survey data from...  Read More >>

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Contributors emphasize mobility not only as a social problem, but to reflect it in a broader sense. This volume...  Read More >>