Life Chances, Class Conflict, Social Change

2021 ◽  
pp. 248-256
Author(s):  
Ralf Dahrendorf
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Class Conflict ◽  
Life Chances

scholarly journals Australian attitudes to intergenerational equity: impacts of social and policy change

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (12) ◽  
pp. 2671-2698 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hal Kendig ◽  
Rafat Hussain ◽  
Kate O'Loughlin ◽  
Lisa Cannon
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Older People ◽  
Policy Change ◽  
Home Ownership ◽  
Baby Boom ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Intergenerational Equity ◽  
Life Chances ◽  
Competing Demands ◽  
Economic Constraints

AbstractAttitudes to ageing can predispose decision-making as governments, interest groups and electorates negotiate competing demands in the context of economic constraints and social change. This paper, based on national survey data, investigates change and stability in Australian attitudes to intergenerational equity from 2009–2010 to 2015–2017, alongside concurrent socio-economic and policy change as well as cohort succession. The emphasis is on the baby-boom cohort who are viewed as significant beneficiaries of social change relative to opportunities of younger and older cohorts. Views of older people as a needy group may be changing slightly as more enter later life with substantial wealth and resources. Our results show that there is little perception of intergenerational conflict with the exception of the Millennial cohort whose life chances are compromised by economic and expenditure constraint over the past decade. Overall, attitudes remain sympathetic to older people, especially among women and people rendered vulnerable by poor health, non-home-ownership and low socio-economic positions. The findings do not align with government portrayals of intergenerational inequalities notwithstanding many having negative views of the future and ongoing expenditure restraint strategies. At what appears to be a critical turning point in the life chances of successive cohorts, the findings indicate the interplay between attitudes and social and policy change, as well as implications for social equity and processes of attitudinal change.

The Rise of Chinese Internet Language: Product and Agent of Globalization from Below

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yun Xiao
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
International Development ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Network Information ◽  
Online Technologies ◽  
Life Chances ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
New Public

Abstract As globalization presses on in China a market economy and democracy have been developed, and ordinary people obtained opportunities at many levels. One of them is their tangible access to media networks, computer facilities, online technologies, and global information exchange, which leads to the rise and expansion of Chinese Internet Language (CIL). Drawing on theoretical perspectives from globalization research, such as globalization and transformation (Steger 2009), as well as globalization and language (Fairclough 2006, 2009), this study intends to examine the emerging CIL and its role in social change. Taking a globalization and language approach, this study seeks to answer questions such as: What characterizes the CIL? How does the CIL reflect the changing social conditions in contemporary China? And how does the cyber community generate new public discourse that drives the changing China? Data used for this study are from three major sources: (1) The corpus-based annual national reports entitled The Language Situation in China《中国语言生活状况报告》Zhongguo Yuyan Shenghuo Zhuangkuang Baogao from 2005 to 2013 (English version in Volumes 1 and 2 of Language Policies and Practices in China, Yuming Li and Wei Li, 2013, 2014), (2) the Semi-Annual Report on International Development in China by CNNIC (China Internet Network Information Center), and (3) recent Chinese publications, online or printed. Collectively, the data indicate that, with globalization rapidly changing and seriously challenging China, its social conditions and people’s life chances are radically changing, which are measured, evaluated, and reflected on by the language use of grassroots people that is marked with innovations, catch words, and novel forms. Officially branded as low standard and crude, CIL binds together a Chinese-speaking cyber community that generates new public discourse as the pushing hand and uncompromising challenger of the social change “from below.”

scholarly journals Sport, Social Division and Social Inequality

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 95-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grant Jarvie
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Sports Participation ◽  
International Perspective ◽  
Inequality Of Opportunity ◽  
Social Division ◽  
Life Chances ◽  
Future Researcher ◽  
The Relationship

Sport, Social Division and Social InequalityThis article examines different forms of social division and social inequality which impact upon contemporary sport. The research draws upon and contributes to contemporary sports participation data in one country. It also draws upon some examples of research from countries other than UK in order to provide a broader international perspective. It examines new forms of inequality and some of the ways in which sport has helped to support social change. It suggests that future researcher examining the relationship between sport and social inequality might think of this in at least three ways (i) inequality of condition; (ii) inequality of opportunity and (iii) inequality of capability. The research supports the argument that sport has a part to play in improving the life chances. The research provides a valuable comparative example from which to develop further comparative research in this area.

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