The new social mobility : how the politicians got it wrong /: how the politicians got it wrong. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Geoff Payne.
• Authors: Payne, Geoff, 1944-
• Contents: THE NEW SOCIAL MOBILITY; Contents; List of tables and figures; Tables; Figures; Acknowledgements; Preface: the confusing world of social mobility; 1. 'There's a lot of it about'; How much mobility is there?; Categories and classes; Mobility within a (class) hierarchy; The consequences of mobility for winners and losers; The political rediscovery of social mobility; 2. Log cabins and field marshals' batons; Mobility in political philosophy and history; 'Traditional' and 'modern' societies: the politics of immobility; Multistage economic development and modernisation The opportunity myth and the safety valve3. Politicians rediscover social mobility; Early and long-term political concerns with social mobility; Labour's rediscovery of social mobility as a political issue; Social mobility: the other parties' rediscoveries; The media and mobility; 4. Documenting mobility; The devil is in the detail: Labour's White Paper; The Liberal Democrats' Independent Commission on Social Mobility; The Conservative Party's mobility documents; The Coalition government's official statement on social mobility; Education and mobility; 5. Tracing the origins Getting On, Getting Ahead The Aldridge Reports; Relying on official documents; 6. Why low, why now?; The political usefulness of 'low mobility' to New Labour; The political utility of 'low mobility' for opposition parties; New challenges, new anxieties; An immobile 'underclass'?; Exclusion and riots; Voting instead of violence: Scottish separatism; Voting without violence: England; 7. The pessimism of earlier academic mobility analysis; The LSE study: Social Mobility in Britain ; The Nuffield Mobility Study; The economists' income mobility; The limitations of conventional mobility analysis 8. The emergence of a new society Industrial and occupational demographics: sectoral changes; Occupational transition: the long-term picture; Occupational transition: the recent picture; Occupational transition: the new hidden hand; Necessary but not sufficient; 9. The new mobility regime; Women, paid work and female class; Gender differences in rates of occupational change and absolute mobility; Gender differences in comparative mobility chances; The problem with demonstrating trends in mobility rates; 10. Misconceptions of schooling and meritocracy Connecting ability, education and occupational outcomeAccounting for meritocracy: SAD or DIM; Schooling inequalities; 11. Tightening bonds and professional access; Higher education for higher occupations; Getting in, getting on; Selection and selectivity; Twelve ; 12. Moving on; Four kinds of class mobility prospects: the upper reaches; Four kinds of class mobility prospects: the service class ; Four kinds of class mobility prospects: the middle of the pack; Four kinds of class mobility prospects: the bottom of the heap; A more pessimistic view of mobility prospects; New Social Mobilities?
• Publisher Details: Bristol : Policy Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 305.5/13; Social mobility; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies; Social mobility; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781447310679; 1447310675; 9781447310693; 1447310691
• Related ISBNs: 9781447310655; 9781447310662
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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