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The success paradox : why we need a holistic theory of social mobility /
This work provides an alternative, original vision of social mobility and a route-map to achieving it. It examines how the term 'social mobility' structures what success means and the impact that has on society. Providing a new holistic approach that encompasses education, the economy and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol :
Policy Press,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- THE SUCCESS PARADOX
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Figures
- Tables
- About the author
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- A convenient truth
- The meaning of social mobility
- The role of education
- The importance of social mobility
- The 'success paradox'
- The rest of this book
- 1. The need for a holistic theory of social mobility
- Introduction
- Social mobility is contributing to dramatic rises in inequality
- Social mobility depends on jobs that are not there
- Another war that Labour should never have fought?
- Does social mobility lead to a better life?
- Holistic social mobility
- 2. Social mobility: rising, falling or staying the same
- Introduction
- Pitirim Sorokin and the meaning of 'stratification'
- David Glass and the dominance of class
- Michael Young, meritocracy, industrialism and historicism
- John Goldthorpe and the importance of measurement
- Absolute versus relative social mobility
- Searching for consensus
- The entry of the economists
- The UK, the 'sick man' of social mobility
- The constant flux
- Is inequality a problem?
- Conclusions
- 3. Unpicking the political consensus on social mobility
- Introduction
- Social mobility and New Labour
- Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission
- Social mobility, politics and the 2010s
- Conclusions
- 4. Going beyond attainment
- Introduction
- Home, school and the 'early years' evangelists
- The rise of 'hyper-parenting'
- Pierre Bourdieu, Raymond Boudon, parenting and cultural capital
- Schooling and confusion over character
- The return of the classical curriculum
- Are 21st-century skills solving or adding to the problem?
- Is there more to school than attainment?
- The vocational problem
- Education for holistic social mobility
- Conclusions.
- 5. Unbundling, diversification and the ecological university: new models for higher education
- Introduction
- Access to higher education
- The first case for higher education
- The second case for higher education
- Beyond access and the battle for the soul of higher education
- Imagination and the role of higher education
- Disruptive forces and massive open online courses
- A pedagogy for holistic social mobility
- The 'unbundling' of higher education
- Conclusions
- 6. The shape of the labour market: hourglass, diamond or molecule?
- The 'hourglass economy'
- The shape and size of the hourglass(es)
- The need for low-skilled work
- The nature of work'
- 'The meaning of work
- Conclusions
- 7. Social mobility, well-being and class
- Introduction
- A broken Britain?
- Welcome to well-being
- Can well-being be measured?
- Is happiness everything?
- Where does class come in?
- Conclusions
- 8. A new politics of social mobility
- The space for a new politics
- The social contract
- Making equality matter
- Enlightened instrumentalism
- The living salary
- Why does changing the powerful matter?
- Elites and social transformation
- 'It's the economy, stupid ... '
- Creating 'good growth'
- Social mobility and the Left
- The potential for a new social mobility politics
- Conclusions
- 9. Reframing social mobility
- Step 1: Recalibrate occupational stratification
- Step 2: Change the mission of education as well as the method
- Step 3: Connect success with society
- Step 4: Take middle-class social mobility seriously
- Step 5: Creating a manifesto for holistic social mobility and success
- The case for holistic social mobility
- Bibliography
- Index.