Migration and social change: a longitudinal study of the social mobility of ?immigrants? in England and Wales

1995 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. J. Fielding
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
The Social

‘Social Change, Friendship and Civic Participation’

2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 111-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaojun Li ◽  
Mike Savage ◽  
Andrew Pickles
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Civic Participation ◽  
British Household Panel Survey ◽  
Panel Survey ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
The Social

This paper studies the changing distribution of social capital and its impact on class formation in England and Wales from a ‘class structural’ perspective. It compares data from the Social Mobility Inquiry (1972) and the British Household Panel Survey (1992 and 1998) to show a distinct change in the class profiling of membership in civic organisations, with traditionally working-class dominated associations losing their working-class character, and middle-class dominated associations becoming even more middle-class dominated. Similar changes are evident for class-differentiated patterns of friendship. Our study indicates the class polarization of social capital in England and Wales.

Teachers’ Narratives of Life Satisfaction, Social Mobility, and Practical Sense of Inequalities in Chile

2021 ◽  
pp. 136078042110061
Author(s):  
Andrea Lizama-Loyola
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Fluid Model ◽  
Differential Forms ◽  
Objective Measure ◽  
The Social

The academic literature argues that understandings of the subjective experience of social mobility differ from objective measure of social mobility – based on occupational patterns of movement – because people tend to conflate changes of the social structure (social change) and changes within the social structure (social mobility), resulting in a limited sense of social inequalities. This article explores subjective understandings of social mobility through the lens of Chilean school-teachers’ narratives of their life trajectories. Methodologically, data were collected through in-depth interviews with 41 teachers who live in Santiago. They were also asked to draw a timeline with the main transitions in their lives. The findings of this article show that teachers’ evaluations of their trajectories are first expressed as narratives relating to their life satisfaction. Differential forms of social comparison that emerge from teachers’ evaluations of their trajectories reveal how people position themselves within a broader structure of social inequalities. In consequence, teachers’ evaluations of their trajectories contain implicit or explicit narratives of social mobility which are often bound up with a subjective sense of social change and life-course change. This article demonstrates that lay understandings of social mobility potentially illuminate academic understandings, by addressing a multidimensional and fluid model of social mobility as well as the practical experiences of inequalities that frame people’s everyday lives.

Muslim Women’s Education And Social Mobility In The Perspectives Of Globalization

Think India ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 629-639
Author(s):  
Dr. BALAK RAM RAJVANSHI
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
The Other ◽  
Development Education ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Subsequent Improvement

Education is crucial means for serving the Muslim women out of their economic gloom because economic dependence is the key factor contributing to the low position of Muslim women. Education is the key to all-round human development Education acts as a mechanism for social mobility. Education attempts to develop ability and capacity in individuals to increase higher status, positions or prestige and promotes active social mobility. Education and social mobility are closely related. Education is capable to encourage the growth and eliminate the backwardness of the nation. The more valuable and fruitful is the education, the more is the social mobility. Education tries to develop ability and capacity in individuals to gain higher status, positions or respect and sponsorsactive social mobility.  Globalisation made it easier to move people around the world and people get in touch with organisations who promise a better life faster. Education is directly related to occupational mobility and the subsequent improvement in economic position and on the other hand, kit forms and element of social change.

Social Change and Problems of Young Adults and Women in Russia and Uzbekistan

1992 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 24-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Paul Sacks
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Regional Differences ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Boundaries ◽  
Upward Social Mobility

While some groups are discovering new opportunities in the shifting political and economic structures of the former Soviet Union, others are finding that their paths towards upward social mobility have become less clear or blocked. There are also growing regional differences in benefits and losses. Although privileges in the old system often translate into advantages in the new, a contracting economy and the redrawing of political boundaries are altering the social order.

Social Mobility of Negroes in Brazil

1970 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 242-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Claude Garcia-Zamor
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Present Status ◽  
Social Crisis ◽  
Brazilian Society ◽  
Historical Factors ◽  
The Social ◽  
Brazilian History

The Brazilian Negroes must be viewed in the context of Brazilian history and civilization and of the forces of social change operating throughout Brazilian society. In this article I intend to point out some of the historical factors that significantly influence the social mobility, or lack of it, of Brazilian Negroes, to analyze the present status of Negroes in Brazilian society, and to suggest some possible ways of dealing with this largely ignored, but very serious, racial situation that contains the seeds of a potential social crisis.After the discovery of Brazil by Pedro Alvares Cabral in 1500, the Portuguese exploited its coastal territories for more than fifty years with little help other than that of the enslaved Indians.

The social and psychological consequences of a natural disaster: A longitudinal study of Hurricane Audrey.

1963 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick L. Bates ◽  
◽  
C. W. Fogleman ◽  
V. J. Parenton ◽  
R. H. Pittman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Natural Disaster ◽  
Psychological Consequences ◽  
The Social
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