What’s fair about that?
Adam Swift: Social Mobilities, 23 January 2020
Social Mobility and Its Enemies
by Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin.
Pelican, 272 pp., £8.99, September 2018,978 0 241 31702 0 Show More
by Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin.
Pelican, 272 pp., £8.99, September 2018,
Social Mobility and Education in Britain
by Erzsébet Bukodi and John Goldthorpe.
Cambridge, 249 pp., £19.99, December 2018,978 1 108 46821 3 Show More
by Erzsébet Bukodi and John Goldthorpe.
Cambridge, 249 pp., £19.99, December 2018,
The Class Ceiling: Why It Pays to Be Privileged
by Sam Friedman and Daniel Laurison.
Policy, 224 pp., £9.99, January,978 1 4473 3610 5 Show More
by Sam Friedman and Daniel Laurison.
Policy, 224 pp., £9.99, January,
“... mechanisms that generate patterns of social (im)mobility across society as a whole, Friedman and Laurison’s The Class Ceiling, a largely qualitative study of patterns of recruitment and promotion in elite professions, nicely lays bare the micro-processes, often unconscious, by which privileged backgrounds convert into higher earnings. Given the bigger ... ”
