Social Mobility for the 21st Century

Social Mobility for the 21st Century addresses experiences of social mobility, and the detailed processes through which entrenched, intergenerationally transmitted privilege is reproduced. Contributions include (but are not limited to) family relationships, students encounters with higher education, narratives of work careers, and mobility identities. The book intends to challenge both the framework of the more traditional approach, and the politicisation of mobility which casts mobility as a possession, a commodity or a character trait, and threatens to castigate the non-mobile as carrying a personal responsibility for their situation. This book presents critical analyses of routes into social mobility, the experience of social mobility, and the political and social implications of social mobilitys panacea status. Drawing on the work of established scholars and more recent entrants, the chapters offer a fresh look at social mobility, opening up the topic to a wider readership among the profession and beyond, and stimulating further debate. This book will appeal to higher level students and scholars of sociology alike, as well as having a broad cross-disciplinary appeal.