The golden age of social mobility: Welfare expansion and adult education during the long 1970s

2022 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Adult Education ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Golden Age

Identity and change of a field: A literature analysis of the concept of social mobility

2021 ◽  
pp. 053901842110221
Author(s):  
Magda Nico
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Literature Analysis ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Diachronic Analysis ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
Systematic Collection

Social mobility is one of the concepts which is the most intrinsically bound to sociology. Hence, the diachronic analysis of this concept contributes to our understanding of sociology and the way that the discipline has changed, as it turned to individual social trajectories according to different topics. Aimed at contributing to this understanding, I’ve developed a literature review based on a systematic collection of the scientific publications in social sciences directly addressing social mobility. A database with conceptual and methodological variables was compiled (N=1054) and worked on. Distinct periods in the life course of this concept have been identified, with the emergence of a scattered concept (1920–1959), the golden age of social mobility (1960–1989), followed by a period of fragmentation and resistance (1990–2012). These three periods are characterized by different methodological and geographical hegemonies, flows and volumes of publications, and also by different tendencies and theoretical and disciplinary rivalries.

Shifting Demographics

2018 ◽  
pp. 15-39
Author(s):  
Lior B. Sternfeld
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Jewish Community ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Jewish Population ◽  
State Structure ◽  
World War

Chapter 1 explores ways that the Jewish community became more diverse following World War II. It examines the sociological and demographic transformations that the Jewish population experienced during the war. This chapter argues that the 1941 invasion of Iran by Allied forces and the subsequent collapse of the rigid state structure facilitated social mobility and redefinition. At the same time, a wave of Iraqi Jews arrived in Iran and added another layer of identity to the growing Jewish population. This chapter also debunks the traditional portrayal of Iran as passive in the war historiography, where it is usually examined in an insufficiently complex or nuanced way, and analyzes the ways in which the war and its aftermath shaped Iran. Contrary to the traditional historiography’s stagnant or, rather, declining analysis of Iranian Jewry, the Jewish population in Iran witnessed a golden age in terms of becoming Iranian citizens.

Melodramatic Tactics for Survival in the Neoliberal Era: Excess and Justice in The Heirs and My Love from the Star

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-173
Author(s):  
We Jung Yi
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Affective Response ◽  
Economic Democracy ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Neoliberal Governance

Abstract This article examines two 2013 TV miniseries, The Heirs and My Love from the Star, by relating their melodramatic aesthetics to the survivalist imperative under neoliberal governance. From the colonial sinp’a theater to Golden Age films, melodrama has operated as a popular mode of imagination that expresses inarticulate experiences generated over the course of Korea’s modernization. To extend and complicate existing scholarship on modern melodrama, this study approaches recent K-dramas’ melodramatic modes as both an affective response to and an everyday tactic for coping with failing economic democracy in contemporary Korea. In this light, the intensifying fantastic elements of the genre are deemed not so much anachronistic as tactical, as they are deployed to reclaim the justice and equality that are felt to be hopelessly disappearing in daily lives. As I look at their excessive aesthetics within the context of diminishing social mobility in the neoliberal era, my analysis of the two miniseries further notes the gendered structure of these melodramatic fantasies in which the survival of women, who have fewer privileges, is achieved through the reform of male elites.

Russian Orthodox Monasticism from 988 to 1917

2020 ◽  
pp. 477-494
Author(s):  
Scott M. Kenworthy
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Current Interest ◽  
History Of ◽  
Collapse Of Communism ◽  
The Revolution

Scholarship on Russian Orthodox monasticism is far less developed than that of Christian monasticism in Western Europe. The collapse of communism, however, has led to a revival of interest in its history. This chapter surveys the history of monasticism in Russia until the Revolution of 1917, together with the historiography of distinct periods in that history. One period that has received particular attention is the golden age of Russian monasticism in the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries, from the revival initiated by St Sergius of Radonezh to the great monastic leaders, Nil Sorskii and Joseph Volotskii. Another current interest is the revival of monasticism in the nineteenth century, when forces of modernity such as greater social mobility, modern transport, and the rise of literacy fuelled stories of living spiritual elders and the miraculous workings of saints’ relics, bringing both pilgrims and recruits in great numbers to Russian monasteries.

scholarly journals There was no golden age: social mobility into cultural and creative occupations

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Orian Brook ◽  
Dave O'Brien ◽  
Mark Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Cultural And Creative Industries ◽  
Over Time

Cultural and creative industries are currently narrated as one of the greatest forces for openness and social mobility that Britain has (Hancock 2016). However, there is little, if any, evidence to support this position. Recent research has suggested the creative and cultural occupations are dominated by those from professional or managerial backgrounds (O’Brien et al 2016, Oakley et al 2017), with cultural theorists arguing this reflects declining rates of social mobility over time (Banks 2017). This paper provides the first empirical assessment of claims made by policy and cultural theory concerning changing patterns of social mobility into cultural and creative occupations. We use the England and Wales Longitudinal Study, along with three birth cohort studies, to offer the first analysis of social mobility into cultural and creative occupations over time. We demonstrate that: cultural and creative occupations have always been characterised by overrepresentations of those from privileged social origins, with little evidence of a classless meritocracy; rates of absolute social mobility are declining in these occupations, contradicting policymakers’ faith in a ‘meritocracy’ for talented individuals aiming to work in artistic and cultural jobs; this decline in absolute levels of social mobility is in contrast to the stability in relative social mobility, indicating there was no ‘golden age’ for social mobility into cultural occupations. These three points illustrate the importance of occupational perspectives on cultural and creative industries and the value of sociological analysis for public policy questions in this area. In particular, the lack of social fluidity in the occupations producing culture is a key issue for future public policy intervention. The paper concludes with suggestions for future research on longevity of cultural careers and the importance of gender using the Longitudinal Study dataset.

Adult workers in higher education: enhancing social mobility

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (9) ◽  
pp. 1101-1117
Author(s):  
Ana Sofia Patrício Pinto Lopes ◽  
Pedro Manuel Rodrigues Carreira
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Adult Education ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Multinomial Logit Model ◽  
Adult Student ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Student Workers

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to verify if adult education can contribute to social mobility by analysing how the socioeconomic and professional background of the students affects dropout and graduation hazards in higher education. Design/methodology/approach An event history analysis approach, with competing risks and discrete time, implemented under a multinomial logit model, is used to investigate how an extensive set of covariates affects the risk of graduation, dropout and persistence of 834 adult student workers from a higher education institution in Portugal. Findings Adult education may indeed be effective in promoting social mobility, as academic achievement is higher for student workers that have low educated parents and low income levels. Also, the probability of achieving graduation seems to be higher for those seeking for higher transformation. Practical implications Adult education should be encouraged as it generates both efficiency and equity benefits. Some policy recommendations are suggested for the higher education system to adapt better to the particular characteristics of adult workers and provide conditions to improve the job–study–family conciliation, namely, by adjusting the schedule and composition of classes, appreciating the curriculum and providing orientation to candidates, and introducing shorter/simplified versions of the degrees. Originality/value A separate treatment is given to adult student workers, whose characteristics are very particular, enriching the literature on academic achievement that has been focussed on traditional students. Additionally, the studied data set merges five sources and provides extensive and original information on personal, degree and employment variables of the students.

Social Mobility and Education in Britain

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