Chinese perceive upward social mobility: How future mobility is influenced, but not limited by past mobility

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongfei Du ◽  
Yue Liang ◽  
Peilian Chi ◽  
Ronnel B. King
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
Upward Social Mobility

Upward social mobility in China: Do cities and neighbourhoods matter?

2018 ◽  
Vol 82 ◽  
pp. 94-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongsheng Chen ◽  
Xingping Wang ◽  
Guo Chen ◽  
Zhigang Li
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
Upward Social Mobility

Producing communities and commodities: Safaricom and commercial nationalism in Kenya

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Tuwei ◽  
Melissa Tully
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Mobile Services ◽  
Economic Success ◽  
Economic Growth And Development ◽  
National Sentiment ◽  
Upward Social Mobility ◽  
The Government

This research analyses Safaricom, one of the most established mobile operators in Kenya. Alongside the provision of mobile services, Safaricom has closely engaged with the government of Kenya, even getting involved in the nation’s politics. This study examines Safaricom’s advertisements from 2010-2014 to explore its use of national sentiment in its marketing. We argue that the ads reflect a commitment to promoting the country and its products through discourses of ‘commercial nationalism’, which present Safaricom as a driver of economic growth and development in Kenya. These discourses link Kenyan identity and distinctiveness to consumerism, commercial and economic success, profit and upward social mobility.

scholarly journals ‘We’ll Help Ourselves, but What’s in It for Us?’ Conflict, Development and Social Mobility among Roma in Romania

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 365-378
Author(s):  
Ana Ivasiuc
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Strategic Group ◽  
Related Development ◽  
Upward Social Mobility ◽  
The Cost

AbstractRoma-related development and policy discourse often represents the Roma development ‘subjects’ as disempowered victims. Against the pervasiveness of such narratives, a close look at the local level conflicts arising during the implementation of a World Bank development project in destitute Roma communities from Romania lays bare the strategies of unassisted social mobility in which a group of Roma engage. Not large or well-defined enough to be constituted into a real ‘class’ in sociological terms, this strategic group is made up of Roma civil servants (mediators, local experts, Romani language teachers) who negotiate their engagement in development projects on their own terms and use the material and immaterial resources that projects offer to enact their own upward social mobility. Often, though, this comes at the cost of a growing socio-economic gap between themselves and the most destitute parts of Roma communities, which complicates their involvement in development projects. The article underlines the necessity of taking into account both the strategies of unassisted social mobility of Roma development brokers, and the internal power imbalances that the development apparatus inevitably ends up producing in Roma communities.

Protestantism and the Latin American Middle Class

1971 ◽  
Vol os-18 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-28
Author(s):  
Charles F. Denton
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Economic Reform ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Upward Social Mobility ◽  
The Church ◽  
Positive Force

The author feels that the development of a middle class in Latin America has been fostered by the effects of Protestant evangelism among the lower classes, which has spurred upward social mobility. But instead of becoming a positive force for social and economic reform, this middle class has become as reactionary as the small traditional upper class. This, together with the inability of most Protestant pastors to minister effectively to middle class persons and intellectuals, is a serious problem for the church in Latin America.

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