The Success Paradox : : Why We Need a Holistic Theory of Social Mobility / / Graeme Atherton.
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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (220 p.) :; 9 Black and White |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- About the author
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 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
- Reframing social mobility
- Bibliography
- Index