Similar or Different? Continuities in Dutch Research on Social Stratification and Social Mobility.

1990 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 668
Author(s):  
David B. Grusky ◽  
Wim Jansen ◽  
Jaap Dronkers ◽  
Kitty Verrips
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
Social Stratification

scholarly journals The Structural Dilemma of Citizen Participation: The Interactive Influence of Social Status and Subjective Social Mobility

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 183449092110031
Author(s):  
Xuyun Tan ◽  
Xuejiao Dou ◽  
Yue Zhang ◽  
Cai Xing ◽  
Baoyu Bai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Interactive Effect ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Analysis Framework ◽  
Stratification Structure ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
High Social Status

In the context of rapid social change, the perception of social stratification has far-reaching and complex influences on human psychology and behavior, including citizen participation. The current research explored the interactive influence of social status and subjective social mobility on citizen participation. Two studies used experimental methods to manipulate subjective social mobility and social status, respectively, to examine the interactive effect. Taken together, the results of both studies revealed that the interaction between social status and subjective social mobility had a significant influence on citizen participation: whereas citizen participation with high social status was not affected by subjective social mobility, citizen participation with low social status decreased with increases in subjective social mobility. This research established a combined dynamic and static analysis framework of social stratification structure, elucidating the current status of citizen participation under the influence of the interaction between social status and subjective social mobility, and providing a countermeasure reference for effectively promoting citizen participation.

Pitirim A Sorokin: The interconnection between his life and scientific work

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 878-904 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inna Ponomareva
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Social Behaviour ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
Cultural Dynamics ◽  
Polar Opposite ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Life Career

This article discusses the relationship between two periods of Pitirim A Sorokin’s life, career and scientific work: the Russian period (till 1922) and the American (1923–68). The main sociological problems of both periods are considered in the article, including: social behaviour, the positivistic system of sociology and famine (as the key problems of his Russian period) and revolution, social stratification, social mobility, social and cultural dynamics and altruistic love (as the key problems of his American period). The important point in the discussion is that the Russian period is a prototype of the American one rather than its polar opposite; and therefore that the concepts that characterize Sorokin’s American period are the development of his ideas that had emerged while he was still in Russia.

NEW MEDIA, OLD PROBLEMS: SOCIAL STRATIFICATION, SOCIAL MOBILITY AND TECHNOLOGY USAGE

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dragoș-Georgian Ilie ◽  
Ramona-Alexandra Neghină ◽  
Valentin-Andrei Mănescu ◽  
Mihaela-Rodica Ganciu ◽  
Gheorghe Militaru
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Technology Usage

scholarly journals International Trade and Institutional Change: Medieval Venice’s Response to Globalization*

2014 ◽  
Vol 129 (2) ◽  
pp. 753-821 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego Puga ◽  
Daniel Trefler
Keyword(s):  
International Trade ◽  
Institutional Change ◽  
Small Group ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Domestic Institutions ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Economic Competition ◽  
Broad Group ◽  
Before And After

Abstract International trade can have profound effects on domestic institutions. We examine this proposition in the context of medieval Venice circa 800–1600. Early on, the growth of long-distance trade enriched a broad group of merchants who used their newfound economic muscle to push for constraints on the executive, that is, for the end of a de facto hereditary Doge in 1032 and the establishment of a parliament in 1172. The merchants also pushed for remarkably modern innovations in contracting institutions that facilitated long-distance trade, for example, the colleganza. However, starting in 1297, a small group of particularly wealthy merchants blocked political and economic competition: they made parliamentary participation hereditary and erected barriers to participation in the most lucrative aspects of long-distance trade. Over the next two centuries this led to a fundamental societal shift away from political openness, economic competition, and social mobility and toward political closure, extreme inequality, and social stratification. We document this oligarchization using a unique database on the names of 8,178 parliamentarians and their families’ use of the colleganza in the periods immediately before and after 1297. We then link these families to 6,959 marriages during 1400–1599 to document the use of marriage alliances to monopolize the galley trade. Monopolization led to the rise of extreme inequality, with those who were powerful before 1297 emerging as the undisputed winners.

scholarly journals Why Do Advantaged People Feel Unhappy? Effects of Materialistic Values on Subjective Well-Being

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 237802311985391
Author(s):  
Naoki Sudo
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Regression Models ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Finite Mixtures ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Easterlin Paradox ◽  
Materialistic Values ◽  
The Relationship

This article aims to explore the relationship between income and happiness. As shown by the Easterlin paradox, the relationship between income and happiness is not simple but indeed is rather complicated. The author used finite mixtures of regression models to analyze the data from the National Survey of Social Stratification and Social Mobility conducted in Japan and implemented computer simulations based on the results of the finite mixtures of regression models to examine how changes in social values influence the relationship between income and happiness. Analytical results revealed that people can be categorized into two latent classes: one dominated by materialistic values and the other eschewing materialistic values. Moreover, they clarified that materialistic values have ambivalent influences on individual happiness and average happiness in society. It is concluded that the diffusion of materialistic values might cause paradoxical relationships between income and happiness.

scholarly journals Social Media and Social Class in China: How Social Media Accelerates Class Consolidation and Social Stratification) Based on Socio-economic Indicators (

1970 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-36
Author(s):  
Changyue Minnie Ma
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Economic Indicators ◽  
Government Regulations ◽  
Middle Classes ◽  
Working Classes ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Chinese Social Media

This paper examines the development of Chinese social media platforms and corresponding socio-economic indicators. Applying Bourdieu's concepts of cultural capital and Fukuyama’s concepts of social capital, this paper analyzes various social media platforms and their impact on mobility across social classes in China. Government regulations are highly involved in Chinese social media platforms. Through measuring education, consumption, income inequality, social mobility, and other related socio-economic indicators, this paper argues that the emergence of social media platforms revolutionizes the traditional social class structure and results in a unique social stratification in China. Social media platforms empower upper classes, middle classes, and working classes differently. This paper's central proposition is that the rise of social media blurs boundaries between middle and working classes, but strengthens the upper classes' distinctiveness and further consolidates their capital. The models applied in this paper advances our understanding of the rise of social media and its role in advocating for social mobility while also its role in facilitating class consolidation.

Genes and Status Achievement

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
François Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Family Environment ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Occupational Prestige ◽  
High Status ◽  
Quantitative Genetic ◽  
Trait Variance ◽  
The Family ◽  
Socioeconomic Success

A number of human traits that are predictive of socioeconomic success (e.g., intelligence, certain personality traits, and educational attainment) or reflective of success (e.g., occupational prestige and earnings) have been found to be substantially affected by individual genetic endowments; some outcomes, such as educational attainment, are also affected by the family environment, although usually to a lesser extent. The associations among status-related traits are themselves largely due to genetic causes. By reshuffling the genes of parents at each generation, sexual reproduction produces a regression of status-relevant traits of offspring toward the population mean—downward for high-status parents, upward for low-status parents—generating social mobility in an achievement-oriented society. Incorporating the quantitative genetic decomposition of trait variance into genetic, shared environmental, and nonshared environmental sources into the classic sociological model of status achievement allows for a better understanding and measurement of central social stratification concepts, such as opportunity and ascription.

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