This chapter examines the ways in which Santiago's barrio alto has grown over the past decades, leading to high levels of social segregation of the most privileged. The offer of housing for the upper middle classes, and upward occupational mobility, has raised expectations of belonging to this ...
Social mobility is the movement in time of individuals, families, or other social units between positions of varying advantage in the system of social stratification of a society. Classical authors have studied social mobility primarily in its contribution to class or status group formation. Recent ...
However, we are still far away from understanding these newly discovered phenomena of human mobility in terms of prehistoric social change. When it comes to the “third-science revolution” that Kristiansen hails, we are actually much worse off than he acknowledges. Not only have we so far fail...
Design, Setting, and Participants This cross-sectional, ecological study used data from 1559 counties in the United States to assess the association of social mobility with average life expectancy at age 40 years by sex and income quartile among adult men and women over the period of January 200...
We develop a “colocation” network to distinguish the mobility patterns of an ego’s social ties from those not socially connected to the ego but who arrive at a location at a similar time as the ego. Using entropic measures, we analyze and bound the predictive information of an individual...
It is the most malicioussocialevil of our time. 出自-2015年12月阅读原文 It is the greatest threat tosocialstability. 出自-2015年12月阅读原文 It is the biggest obstacle tosocialmobility. 出自-2015年12月阅读原文 It is better to start from the community to help poor children move up thesocial...
Social Mobility in France 1720–1986: Effects of Wars, Revolution and Economic Change The most basic question concerning social mobility—whether it has decreased, increased or remained in a constant flux over time—was formulated a century ago by Sorokin. Despite the enormous progress made by hist...
We argue the importance of the number and diversity of common friends, with a counter intuitive finding that the number of common friends has no positive impact on mobility similarity while the diversity plays a key role, disagreeing with previous studies. Our analysis provides a novel view for...
Social mobility Britain’s inequalities are spelt out in its surnames Shapley, Evershed and Charter are among the most fortunate “AM SURPRISED TO realise that anybody ever goes to, lives at, or comes from, Norwich,” wrote the novelist E.M. Delafield in 1930. The town is not Britain’s ...
mobility, offering a ‘refuge’ and providing multifaceted support to the upwardly mobile, both in their adjustment to their class destination and when negotiating demands and ties with their class origins. These findings call for a new research agenda in the study of class, social mobility and ...