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The new social mobility : how the politicians got it wrong / Geoff Payne.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Payne, Geoff, 1944- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social mobility.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 229 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Policy Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- Geoff Payne considers a wide range of dimensions of mobility and life chances to assess the causes and consequences of mobility as social and political processes, and challenges well-established opinions of politicians, pressure groups, the press, academics and the public.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- List of tables and figures
- Acknowledgements
- Preface: the confusing world of social mobility
- ‘There’s a lot of it about’
- Log cabins and field marshals’ batons
- Politicians rediscover social mobility
- Documenting mobility
- Tracing the origins
- Why low, why now?
- The pessimism of earlier academic mobility analysis
- The emergence of a new society
- The new mobility regime
- Misconceptions of schooling and meritocracy
- Tightening bonds and professional access
- Moving on
- Appendix
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Apr 2022).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781447310709
- 1447310705
- 9781447310693
- 1447310691
- 9781447310686
- 1447310683
- 9781447310679
- 1447310675
- OCLC:
- 967071461
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