Facing Loss – Downward Social Mobility in Lauren Beukes's Zoo City

2021 ◽  
pp. 115-128
Author(s):  
Verena Jain-Warden
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
Downward Social Mobility

Muslim Origins and Destinations

2019 ◽  
pp. 29-44
Author(s):  
Tahir Abbas
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Global North ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Right ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Downward Social Mobility

Patterns of racism in the Global North are correlated with the changing nature of globalization and its impact on individual economies, especially over the last four decades. The ‘left behind’ are groups in society who have faced considerable downward social mobility, with some becoming targeted by the mainstream and fringe right-wing groups who do this to release their pent up frustration towards the center of political and economic power. How this form of racism has evolved over time to focus on race, ethnicity, culture and now religion is explored in relation to the UK case, discussing the rise of Trump and the issue of Brexit as symptoms of a wider malaise affecting societies of the Global North. These forms of tribalism act to galvanize the right, combining racism with white supremacy, xenophobia and isolationism.

Multidimensional, complex and contingent: Exploring international PhD students’ social mobility

Ethnicities ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 146879682096670
Author(s):  
Rituparna Roy ◽  
Shinya Uekusa ◽  
Jeevan Karki
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Economic Resources ◽  
Class Identity ◽  
Host Countries ◽  
Highly Skilled Migrants ◽  
Highly Skilled ◽  
Multidimensional Complex ◽  
Downward Social Mobility

This paper is a collaborative autoethnography (CAE) by three international PhD students from Bangladesh, Japan and Nepal who pursued (or who are currently pursuing) their studies in New Zealand. In contrast to previous research which largely advanced a simplistic, downward social mobility experience of international PhD students or highly skilled migrants in general, we argue that this experience is dynamic, complex and multidimensional in nature. In doing so, we turn to Bourdieu’s theory of capital. By focusing on less-direct economic resources (e.g. ethnicity, nationality, language and social networks), we explore the multidimensionality and convolution of our social mobility which stems from migration. Setting aside a narrative of adversity and downward social mobility among international PhD students, this paper emphasizes how we actively negotiated and dealt with shifting class identity and social mobility in the host countries.

scholarly journals Socioeconomic status and pulmonary function, transition from childhood to adulthood: cross-sectional results from the polish part of the HAPIEE study

BMJ Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. e022638 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maciej Polak ◽  
Krystyna Szafraniec ◽  
Magdalena Kozela ◽  
Renata Wolfshaut-Wolak ◽  
Martin Bobak ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Lung Function ◽  
Pulmonary Function ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Forced Expiratory Volume ◽  
Low Ses ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Downward Social Mobility

ObjectivePrevious studies have reported inverse associations between socioeconomic status (SES) and lung function, but less is known about whether pulmonary function is affected by SES changes. We aimed to describe the relationship of changes of SES between childhood and adulthood with pulmonary function.DesignCross-sectional study.ParticipantsThe study sample included 4104 men and women, aged 45–69 years, residents of Krakow, participating in the Polish part of the Health, Alcohol and Psychosocial Factors in Eastern Europe Project.Main outcomeForced expiratory volume (FEV1) and forced vital capacity (FVC) were assessed by the standardised spirometry procedure. Participants were classified into three categories of SES (low, moderate or high) based on information on parent’s education, housing standard during childhood, own education, employment status, household amenities and financial status.ResultsThe adjusted difference in mean FVC between persons with low and high adulthood SES was 100 mL (p=0.005) in men and 100 mL (p<0.001) in women; the differences in mean FEV1were 103 mL (p<0.001) and 80 mL (p<0.001), respectively. Upward social mobility and moderate or high SES at both childhood and adulthood were related to significantly higher FEV1and FVC compared with low SES at both childhood and adulthood or downward social mobility.ConclusionsLow SES over a life course was associated with the lowest lung function. Downward social mobility was associated with a poorer pulmonary function, while upward mobility or life course and moderate or high SES were associated with a better pulmonary function.

scholarly journals Microbusiness, Household and Class Dynamics: The Embedding of Minority Ethnic Petty Commerce

2002 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Balihar Sanghera
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
Economic Sociology ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Social Embeddedness ◽  
Substantive Content ◽  
Ethnographic Methodology ◽  
Ethnic Factors ◽  
Ethnic Businesses ◽  
Minority Ethnic ◽  
Downward Social Mobility

Microbusinesses are embedded in wider social processes, and it is the nature of this social embeddedness that is the principal focus of the article. In particular, ‘domestic embedding’ of petty commerce is crucial, and involves a mixture of competition, domination, negotiation, and custom (Wheelock and Mariussen, 1997). Furthermore, as a socio-economic group, petty traders and producers occupy an ambivalent position in the class structure, as they are vulnerable both to upward and downward social mobility. While the petty capital class has the advantage of possessing property assets, many members lack significant symbolic and cultural assets. Nonetheless, property assets offer the most robust bases for class formation (Savage et al., 1992). In addition, the embedding of petty commerce can be both ‘identity-sensitive’ and ‘identity-neutral’ (Sayer, 1995; 2000; Fraser, 1995). Extra-ethnic factors are significant in this process. The research uses formal interviews and ‘quasi-ethnographic’ methodology to explore the different contexts in which restaurateurs and market traders operated in Birmingham, UK. The article draws critically on several literatures on industrial organisation, economic sociology, family businesses and minority ethnic businesses. One aim is to give the rather indifferent concept of ‘embedding’ substantive content, and in this way to make an empirically informed contribution to ‘new economic sociology’.

Adolescents' Social Mobility Orientations in Relation to F-Scale Behavior

1964 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-79
Author(s):  
Warren D. Bachelis ◽  
John Pierce-Jones
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
Occupational Choice ◽  
Upward Mobility ◽  
T Test ◽  
Anticipatory Socialization ◽  
Occupational Choices ◽  
Scale Scores ◽  
Twelfth Grade ◽  
Scale Behavior ◽  
Downward Social Mobility

The California F-scale (Forms 40 and 45), Gough's MMPI St scale, Gough's Home Index socio-economic sratus scale, and questions to elicit Ss' expressions of occupational choice and data about parents' occupations were administered to 201 twelfth grade pupils. Ss' social mobility orientations were determined (a) by differences between paternal occupational levels and levels of Ss' occupational choices and (b) by differences between Home Index and St T scores. Mean F-scale scores for groups classified as having upward and downward social mobility orientations, respectively, were compared by t test within sexes. The hypothesis that those showing the upward mobility orientation would obtain lower mean F-scale scores was confirmed for both sexes. It was proposed that the results might be interpreted in terms of the scapegoat theory of prejudice or, more simply, in terms of the concept of anticipatory socialization.

Patterns of Household Immigration into South Texas

1987 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth K. Briody
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
South Texas ◽  
Agricultural Labor ◽  
Property Ownership ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Household Members ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Downward Social Mobility

Relatively little is known about household immigration to the U.S. and in particular, the cultural and work-related aspects of the transition faced by households. Results from this article suggest that immigration often leads to downward social mobility with respect to legal status of household members, type of employment, and property ownership. Of particular note is the transformation of the household from a single to a multiple worker unit, in response to agricultural labor demands and growing employment opportunities in the non-agricultural sector. These factors are influential in the modification of the traditional ideology concerning the division of labor by sex and age. This article introduces a hypothesis for explaining the increase and permanency of household immigration.

scholarly journals Unequal Youth Migrations: Exploring the Synchrony between Social Ageing and Social Mobility among Post-Crisis European Migrants

Sociology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (6) ◽  
pp. 1160-1176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Varriale
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Individual Case ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Central Concern ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Downward Social Mobility

This article explores how symbolic boundaries between youth and adulthood shape experiences of upward and downward social mobility among EU migrants. Drawing on 56 biographical interviews with Italians who moved to England after the 2008 economic crisis, and focusing on three individual case studies, the article reveals that normative understandings of adulthood emerge as a central concern from participants’ biographical accounts, and that they mobilise unequal forms of cultural, economic and social capital to maintain a feeling of ‘synch’ between social ageing and social mobility. Drawing on Bourdieu and the sociology of adulthood, the article proposes the notion of synchrony to explore how tensions in the relationship between social ageing and social mobility shape experiences of migration. This allows for an innovative theoretical bridge between cultural class analysis, adulthood studies and migration studies, and for a better understanding of how intersections of class and age shape intra-European migrations.

Social Mobility and the Interpretation of Social Class Mortality Differentials

1983 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Stern
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Health Inequalities ◽  
Absolute Rate ◽  
Mortality Differentials ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Downward Social Mobility

AbstractThe discussion of health inequalities in Britain (e.g. in the Black Report) has been conducted largely on the basis of social class mortality differentials measured by achieved social class and not by social class of origin. It is shown in this paper that social class mortality differentials by achieved social class are not invariant to the rate of social mobility and that the use of them is likely to result in a biased measure of trends in health inequalities when the absolute rate of social mobility varies over time. It is further shown that if, as is likely, health status is a factor systematically affecting the probability for an individual of upward or downward social mobility, then an increase in the rate of social mobility may well result in constant or widening social class mortality differentials by achieved social class even if the differentials are narrowing when measured by social class of origin. It is claimed that this process may well explain why the observed social class mortality differentials, which are measured by achieved social class, have not fallen in Britain during the post-1945 period.

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