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The Success Paradox : Why We Need a Holistic Theory of Social Mobility /

Social mobility needs a re-boot. The narrow, economistic way of measuring it favoured by politicians and academics is unsustainable and is contributing to rising inequality. This timely book provides an alternative, original vision of social mobility and a route-map to achieving it. It examines how...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Atherton, Graeme (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bristol : Policy Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The need for a holistic theory of social mobility
  • Social mobility: rising, falling or staying the same
  • Unpicking the political consensus on social mobility
  • Going beyond attainment
  • Unbundling, diversification and the ecological university: new models for higher education
  • The shape of the labour market: hourglass, diamond, or molecule?
  • Social mobility, well-being and class
  • A new politics of social mobility
  • Re-framing social mobility.