The Formation of a Social Class Structure: Urbanization, Bureaucratization and Social Mobility in Thailand

1966 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 480 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans-Dieter Evers
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Class Structure

The Formation of a Social Class Structure: Urbanization, Bureaucratization and Social Mobility in Thailand

1966 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 100-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans-Dieter Evers
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Political Power ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Class Structure ◽  
Urban Centre ◽  
Class System

AbstractUrbanization and bureaucratization are usually connected with a high rate of social mobility in western industrialized societies. In Thailand, however, mobility has declined at least between certain strata of Thai society following the consolidation of a bureaucratic elite in the expanding urban centre of Bangkok. The growing size, the monopolization of certain status symbols, the development of a distinct subculture and the concentration of economic and political power are indications that the bureaucratic elite is developing into a social class. It is therefore concluded that urbanization and bureaucratization in formerly loosely structured societies may lead to the formation of a class system and to a temporary decline of social mobility.

scholarly journals Mapping the Social Class Structure: From Occupational Mobility to Social Class Categories Using Network Analysis

Sociology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (6) ◽  
pp. 1257-1276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonas Toubøl ◽  
Anton Grau Larsen
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Clustering Algorithm ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Occupational Mobility ◽  
Class Structure ◽  
The Social ◽  
Class Divisions ◽  
Mobility Tables

This article develops a new explorative method for deriving social class categories from patterns of occupational mobility. In line with Max Weber, our research is based on the notion that, if class boundaries do not inhibit social mobility then the class categories are of little value. Thus, unlike dominant, theoretically defined class schemes, this article derives social class categories from observed patterns in a mobility network covering intra-generational mobility. The network is based on a mobility table of 109 occupational categories tied together by 1,590,834 job shifts on the Danish labour market 2001–2007. The number of categories are reduced from 109 to 34 by applying a new clustering algorithm specifically designed for the study of mobility tables (MONECA). These intra-generational social class categories are related to the central discussions of gender, income, education and political action by providing empirical evidence of strong patterns of intra-generational class divisions along these lines.

Scheming

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seán Damer
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Housing Policy ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Class Structure ◽  
Local Council ◽  
Housing Scheme ◽  
Post War ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Voice ◽  
House Building

This book seeks to explain how the Corporation of Glasgow, in its large-scale council house-building programme in the inter- and post-war years, came to reproduce a hierarchical Victorian class structure. The three tiers of housing scheme which it constructed – Ordinary, Intermediate, and Slum-Clearance – effectively signified First, Second and Third Class. This came about because the Corporation uncritically reproduced the offensive and patriarchal attitudes of the Victorian bourgeoisie towards the working-class. The book shows how this worked out on the ground in Glasgow, and describes the attitudes of both authoritarian housing officials, and council tenants. This is the first time the voice of Glasgow’s council tenants has been heard. The conclusion is that local council housing policy was driven by unapologetic considerations of social class.

scholarly journals Re-Imagining Social Mobility: The Role of Relationality, Social Class and Place in Qualitative Constructions of Mobility

2021 ◽  
pp. 136078042098512 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Folkes
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Educational Achievement ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Ontological Security ◽  
Occupational Position ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Key Techniques ◽  
Class Community

Discussions around social mobility have increasingly gained traction in both political and academic circles in the last two decades. The current, established conceptualisation of social mobility reduces ‘success’ down to individual level of educational achievement, occupational position and income, focusing on the successful few who rise up and move out. For many in working-class communities, this discourse is undesirable or antithetical to everyday life. Drawing upon 13 interviews with 9 families collected as part of an ethnographic study, this article asks, ‘how were social (im)mobility narratives and notions of value constructed by residents of one working-class community?’ Its findings highlight how alternative narratives of social (im)mobility were constructed; emphasising the value of fixity, anchorage, and relationality. Three key techniques were used by participants when constructing social (im)mobility narratives: the born and bred narrative; distancing from education as a route to mobility; and the construction of a distinct working-class discourse of fulfilment. Participants highlighted the value of anchorage to place and kinship, where fulfilment results from finding ontological security. The findings demonstrate that residents of a working-class community constructed alternative social mobility narratives using a relational selfhood model that held local value. This article makes important contributions to the theorisation of social mobility in which it might be understood as a collective rather than individual endeavour, improving entire communities that seek ontological security instead of social class movement and dislocation.

Pathways to Social Class: A Qualitative Approach to Social Mobility.

Social Forces ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 1549
Author(s):  
Charles E. Hurst ◽  
Daniel Bertaux ◽  
Paul Thompson ◽  
Rudolf Andorka ◽  
Iabelle Bertaux-Wiame ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Class A

Higher Education, Social Class and Social Mobility

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann-Marie Bathmaker ◽  
Nicola Ingram ◽  
Jessie Abrahams ◽  
Anthony Hoare ◽  
Richard Waller ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Social Mobility
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