Sociology and Statistics in Britain: The Strange History of Social Mobility Research and Its Latter-Day ConsequencesAs sociology and statistics developed in Britain in the later nineteenth and earlier twentieth centuries a widening gulf emerged between the two disciplines; and still today British ...
Empirical analysis of social mobility is typically framed by outcomes recorded for only a single, recent generation, ignoring intergenerational preconditions and historical conferment of opportunity. We use the detailed geography of relative deprivation
Among the multiple effects of Brexit, changes in migration and mobility across Europe were expected. Several studies have analysed these aspects, mostly fr
Indeed, latent information about an individual’s movement can be present in the mobility patterns of both acquaintances and strangers. 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...
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This estimation method may present its limitation for spaces with strong population mobility or irregular space shape in practice. 7. Conclusion This paper developed and introduces two critical indices – social distance probability Pd and ventilation effectiveness Ez –into the Wells-Riley model to ...
The United Kingdom also appears on the list, having regressed 0.28 points. This decline is attributed to stringent austerity measures andBrexit, having impacted all areas from education to healthcare, rights and tolerance. The UK has fallen from 11th rank in the world in 2011 to now standing ...
Moreover, the current COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing mobility restrictions have led many organizations to rethink the established notion of communications and business transactions. In this vein, our finding suggests that even with environmental disruptions, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, knowledge...
In general, this instrument has been shown to be useful in the study of social mobility. Here, however, we use the position generator to study a determinant of the structure of social networks, namely, attending sporting events. This use has been inspired by Tindall et al., (2012), who ...
(Ditton and Duffy,1983). For instance, considering the ten most popular printed daily newspapers published in the UK for a period of 4 weeks in 1989, it was found that nearly 65% of the space that was devoted to crime was related to personal violence, whereas official statistics reported ...