Analyzing Inequality: Life Chances and Social Mobility in Comparative Perspective

2006 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 566-567
Author(s):  
David Brady
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Life Chances

After Care

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry Godfrey ◽  
Pam Cox ◽  
Heather Shore ◽  
Zoe Alker
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Early Release ◽  
Release System ◽  
Life Chances ◽  
After Care

Chapters 6 follows the children out of the institutional gate and into adulthood. It draws on rich personal evidence created through the ‘licence’ (or early release) system as well as census, military, employment, criminal justice, and local press records to track their subsequent journeys through life. The chapter focuses on the experiences of the majority who—to our knowledge—desisted from further offending. This group might be described as adolescent-limited offenders. The factors that seem likely to have contributed to their ‘successful’ reintegration are examined, and there is consideration of what that ‘success’ may have meant in terms of wider life chances and social mobility.

‘Maybe Life Can Become Easier Because of My Good Grades’: Children’s Conflicting Repertoires on Aspirations and Life Chances

2020 ◽  
pp. 136078042097541
Author(s):  
Imane Kostet ◽  
Noel Clycq ◽  
Gert Verschraegen
Keyword(s):  
Social Inequality ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Education System ◽  
Personal Agency ◽  
Life Chances ◽  
The Future

In this article, we draw on interviews with pupils aged 11–13 years, to analyse children’s aspirations, expectations of the future, and reasonings about social inequality in the context of an early tracking education system. We highlight the conflicting yet creative ways in which children make sense of inequality in relation to life chances. Although our child-respondents prefer structural explanations for inequality, they strategically draw on repertoires of individual social mobility to express their faith in personal agency and meritocracy. In doing so, these children use narratives of upwards mobility that have arisen in very different socio-economic and political contexts to make sense of inequality in their own locality.

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