Social Mobility and Fertility within an Elite Group

1953 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 411 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Digby Baltzell
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
Elite Group

Social Mobility and Fertility Within an Elite Group

2017 ◽  
pp. 111-122
Author(s):  
Baltzell E. Digby
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
Elite Group

Opening the Inner Circle of Power: Circulation among the Finnish Elites in the Context of Major Societal Changes 1991–2011

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilkka Ruostetsaari
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
Political Elite ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Political Decision ◽  
Elite Group ◽  
Internet Surveys ◽  
Societal Changes ◽  
Economic Position

Abstract The present study assessed the extent to which elite circulation has changed in Finland in the context of substantial social changes since the early 1990s. We first analyzed changes in vertical social mobility, i.e., recruitment to the elites, and then, changes in horizontal social mobility, i.e., circulation within the elites. The study was methodologically based on the positional approach, and postal/Internet surveys of members within the elites were conducted in 1991, 2001, and 2011. The hypotheses were derived from major social changes that have occurred in the Finnish society since the early 1990s. Since many of these societal changes focused most profoundly on people of lowest socio-economic position, we first hypothesized, that recruitment from these groups to the elites had decreased, i.e., the openness of the elite structure had been reduced. According to second hypothesis, the retention of elite positions had become less secure due to decreased societal stability and increased scandals implicating the elites. Moreover, since the political decision-makers were responsible for many social changes, and the political elite is the sole elite group whose ascendancy depends mainly on the support of the population, we also hypothesized that societal changes have exerted the most effect on the political elite.

Social Mobility and Education in Britain

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erzsébet Bukodi ◽  
John H. Goldthorpe
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility

Social Mobility in Late Antique Gaul

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allen E. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
Late Antique

Achieving Social Mobility Through Education: An Ethnographic Study of African American Parents

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashland Thompson ◽  
Sherry C. Eaton ◽  
Linda M. Burton ◽  
Whitney Welsh ◽  
Jonathan Livingston ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
African American Parents

The Efficient Organisation of Public Intellect: Lyon Playfair and Scottish Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 98 (2) ◽  
pp. 266-290
Author(s):  
Robert Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Education ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Technical Education ◽  
Direct Connection ◽  
National System ◽  
Modern Idea ◽  
History Of ◽  
Parish Schools ◽  
Education Act ◽  
Scottish Politics

Lyon Playfair was a champion of scientific and technical education who was professor of chemistry at Edinburgh University before serving as a Liberal M.P., initially for a Scottish university seat, from 1868 to 1892. This article looks mainly at his role in debates on the Education Act of 1872 and the bills which preceded it. Playfair sought to define the democratic traditions of Scottish education, especially emphasising the legacy of John Knox, and to adapt them to the new national system. He idealised the direct connection between parish schools and universities, and the opportunities available to talented boys, using newly available statistics to support his case. He also contributed to the shaping of Scottish secondary education, and to establishing the modern idea of social mobility through educational merit. When the Scottish Office was established in 1885, Playfair opposed the devolution of education and this dissent led him to move to an English seat. His career has a wider interest for the history of Scottish politics in the age of Gladstone.

Problems of Tomorrow: Social Mobility, Stratification Inconsistency and Middle Class Delinquency

1961 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 351-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert H. Bohlke
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Social Mobility

Does Social Mobility Effect Poverty?

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siti Hadijah Che Matos
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility
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