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The son also rises : surnames and the history of social mobility /
How much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents? How much does this influence our children? More than we wish to believe! While it has been argued that rigid class structures have eroded in favor of greater social equality, The Son Also Rises proves that movement on the so...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2014]
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| Colección: | Princeton economic history of the Western world.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Introduction: of ruling classes and underclasses : the laws of social mobility
- Social mobility by time and place
- Sweden : mobility achieved?
- The United States : land of opportunity
- Medieval England : mobility in the feudal age
- Modern England : the deep roots of the present
- A law of social mobility
- Nature versus nurture
- Testing the laws of mobility
- India : caste, endogamy, and mobility
- China and Taiwan : mobility after Mao
- Japan and Korea : social homogeneity and mobility
- Chile : mobility among the oligarchs
- The law of social mobility and family dynamics
- Protestants, Jews, gypsies, Muslims, and copts : exceptions to the law of mobility?
- Mobility anomalies
- The good society
- Is mobility too low? : mobility versus inequality
- Escaping downward social mobility
- Appendix 1: Measuring social mobility
- Appendix 2: Deriving social mobility rates from surname frequencies
- Appendix 3: Discovering the status of your surname lineage
- Data sources for figures and tables
- References
- Index.