#social-mobility — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #social-mobility, aggregated by home.social.
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If you’re working class, you’ve got little chance of a career in classical music | Letter
By Guardian StaffDiversity schemes that ignore class will keep mistaking a handful of border-crossers for structural change, says one reader, whose son was judged too privileged
#Classissues #Classicalmusic #Race #UKnews #DEIpolicies #Culture #Socialmobility #TheGuardian #GuardianStaff
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‘It’s rare to hear: I’m black and middle class’ – Symeon Brown on black Britain’s enduring ‘taboo’
By Emma LoffhagenBlack people are more prominent than ever in the UK’s politics and culture. But are they overwhelmingly from the middle class, as Brown argues in his new book? And if so, why isn’t anyone talking about it?
#Society #Race #Classissues #BlackBritishculture #Socialmobility #TheGuardian #EmmaLoffhagen
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In Britain, we equate blackness with the working class. It’s time for a rethink
By Symeon BrownIn my new book, I narrate the existence, behaviours and sensibilities of the black British middle class, a social group largely ignored, until now
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/aug/05/britain-blackness-working-class-rethink
#Society #Books #Race #Classissues #Socialmobility #Inequality #Culture #TheGuardian #SymeonBrown
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Isn't it funny how those who benefit from connections & family networks often argue that it is education that really counts, while those who lack such connections (but have the qualifications) can see more easily that it *is* connections that often shape careers...
Its almost like those who benefit from their family's behind the scenes influence somehow fail to see how crucial it is (because its always been there); or perhaps they're just classist hypocrites?
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Are British graduates being conned? | Opinion
By Presented by Aditya Chakrabortty ; produced by Bryony Moore ; editor Kirsty MajorThousands of students are graduating into an employment crisis, leaving them feeling hopeless and overqualified, as well as dealing with enormous debts from tuition fees. When higher education was transformed, teenagers were offered a deal - pay £9,000 a year and secure a ‘bright future’. But as the Guardian’s economics commentator Aditya Chakrabortty accurately predicted, for many the reality has been very different.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/video/2026/jul/30/are-british-graduates-being-conned-opinion
#UKnews #Universities #Highereducation #Socialmobility #TheGuardian #PresentedbyAdityaChakrabortty #producedbyBryonyMoore #editorKirstyMajor
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Is Burnham’s Oxbridge-heavy cabinet a sign of social mobility or lack of progress on class?
By Esther AddleyPM’s team can be seen as backward step even though in some ways it is more diverse. Yet its makeup points to wider access to power
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/26/burnham-oxbridge-cabinet-social-mobility-class
#AndyBurnham #Socialmobility #Labour #Classissues #Oxbridgeandelitism #Politics #Privateschools #Society #UKnews #Education #TheGuardian #EstherAddley
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Is Burnham’s Oxbridge-heavy cabinet a sign of social mobility or lack of progress on class? https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/26/burnham-oxbridge-cabinet-social-mobility-class #AndyBurnham #SocialMobility #Labour #ClassIssues #OxbridgeAndElitism #Politics #PrivateSchools #Society #UkNews #Education
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“Some of my students might say that class doesn’t really exist or doesn’t matter any more, that there’s this idea we’re in a meritocratic society and everyone’s got equal access to opportunities and so on and so forth,” she said. “Whereas when we look at something like this we see quite clearly the different socioeconomic brackets speak differently in different ways.”
I bet they're the privileged, middle class ones...
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jul/01/happy-vowel-key-indicator-social-class-manchester-accents-study -
‘Happy vowel’ is a key indicator of social class in Manchester accents, study finds https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jul/01/happy-vowel-key-indicator-social-class-manchester-accents-study #Manchester #Language #ClassIssues #GreaterManchester #SocialMobility #Science #NorthOfEngland #UkNews #Society
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8) We need an #ExtremeWealthLine if we are to lift more people above the #PovertyLine
If we believe #SocialMobility is good then a #WealthTax becomes a necessity
If we believe our #Politics is increasingly been bought by the #UltraWealthy then failure to address gross #inequality will lead to a decline in western #democracy
@ingridrobeyns
Lays it out clearly in this piece 👇 -
Amusing to watch #billionaires scrambling. No doubt they’re frustrated their billions doesn’t entitle them to a bigger number of votes. Could be that’s why they are on a never ending quest to undermine any effort to make a more equitable society
Not all billionaire types want to pull up the ladder and decrease #SocialMobility, but its clear that an influential set have managed to decrease their tax burden with each passing year leaving us #NPC types with no social safety net
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In our latest PS #Insiderinterview, Philippe Aghion and @[email protected] discuss how AI-driven disruption could trigger political backlash if workers are left behind. Watch or read for free at the link below: bit.ly/4oikmEp #Populism #AI #EconomicSecurity #LaborMarket #SocialMobility
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As a political idea, social mobility is based on an acceptance of hierarchical depiction of society.... which builds into its politics almost inevitable resistance.
In a hierarchy, for people to move up (upwards social mobility), others must by definition move down (relative downwards social mobility) to make 'room' for those rising.
People & families have always moved downwards in such hierarchies, but resistance to an accelerated (forced) fall can hardly be unexpected!
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* The Great Global Transformation
The United States, China, and the Remaking of the World Economic Order, Branko Milanovic >>
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/G/bo269830239.html* The U.S., China, and the Remaking of the World Economic Order
"After unprecedented economic growth during the 20th century, is the U.S. losing its place as a world power? How have China’s economic rise and its growing class of uber-wealthy elites shaken up its society? How are the seismic changes to both countries reshuffling the global economic order?" >>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr1zscNHeYI
#geopolitics #USChinaRelations #WorldEconomicOrder #SeismicShifts #US #China #growth #elites #UberWealthy #plutocracy #nationalism #NationalMarketLiberalism #degeneration #protectionism #inequality #SocialMobility #homoploutia #book -
📄 The programme for the upcoming CPC-CG Symposium at the #UniversityofStAndrews is now available!
On 23-24 June, the symposium will bring together researchers from the #UK, #Europe, and beyond to explore #intergenerational change and support across a range of themes, including:
• #Household and #housing
• #Migration and #socialmobility
• #Community, #segregation, and #socialcohesion
• #Family and #fertility
• #Intergenerationalexchange
More info: https://www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/event_calendar/1002/Centre_for_Population_Change__Connecting_Generations_Symposium_on_Intergenerational_Change_and_Support -
A third of Britons believe they have changed social class, survey finds https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2026/may/16/social-class-working-upper-changed-attest-survey-uk #ClassIssues #SocialMobility #Inequality #Society #UkNews #HealthWellbeing #Politics
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Privately educated CEOs seen as ‘safer bet’ by investors, study finds https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/may/14/privately-educated-ceos-safer-bet-investors-class-bias-study #PrivateSchools #Education #Schools #Business #Ftse #FinancialSector #StockMarkets #SecondarySchools #Sociology #SocialMobility #Inequality #Society #UkNews #UsNews #WorldNews #ClassIssues
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2/4 These are fields - media and cultural studies and cultural theory - that are increasingly being framed as problematic, both ideologically and instrumentally. Yet they have played an important role in challenging the elitist tendencies of the mainstream, including those surrounding #socialmobility. If only either Seddon or Rajan had attended one of these institutions instead of having the disadvantage of studying for an undergraduate degree at #Oxford and #cambridge.
Still, we shouldn’t be surprised. This is, after all, a conversation on the #BBC between two Oxbridge-educated figures – albeit one is from South London the other West Yorkshire – taking about how social mobility might be used to include more people from #workingclass backgrounds in the system as it currently exists. It’s a social and educational system that was constructed in advance, although not by working-class people themselves, of course. A system that has in fact historically exploited and marginalised them.
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Calls for ‘student premium’ to support disadvantaged young people after GCSEs https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/apr/28/calls-for-student-premium-to-support-disadvantaged-young-people-after-gcses #SocialMobility #Inequality #Schools #Education #UkNews #Teaching #DepartmentForEducation #SchoolFunding
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We need to build better and more equitable education systems. How rich you are born today influences way too much your chances at educational and professional success. Social mobility should be maximized!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wqduTqIGm1g
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_mobility#SocialMobility #Equality #WealthInequality #Piketty #Inequality #Equity #Freedom #Democracy
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There is a cynical pandering by mainstream Irish parties on issues of migration. It’s particularly notable in some of the stances taken by FG.
Rather that combatting disinformation, some have opted for a me too embrace of fear based xenophobic politics.
Its shameful stuff and a distraction from the glacial pace in governance addressing #affordability, the #HousingCrisis, physical and social #infrastructure, and #SocialMobility
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This looks set to be a brilliant event on understanding the needs of lower-income families, with many great speakers, including CPC-CG member Athina Vlachantoni, who will discuss how we should properly value both paid and unpaid work.
Register to attend in person or online on 10 Feb: https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/events/unsung-britain-final-conference/
#demography #socialpolicy #socialscience #families #lowincome #costofliving #inequality #labourmarket #socialmobility #economy #livingstandards #poverty #welfare #caring #ageing #ukpolitics
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‘Immoral’: Cambridge college urged to drop private school recruitment drive https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/jan/08/university-of-cambridge-trinity-hall-recruitment-private-schools #UniversityOfCambridge #OxbridgeAndElitism #PrivateSchools #Admissions #SocialMobility #AccessToUniversity #Students #HigherEducation #Universities #HigherEducationPolicy #Schools #Society #Education #UkNews
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"No wonder the American Dream took such a beating in the July 2025 Wall Street Journal-NORC at the University of Chicago poll. Just 25% of people surveyed believed they “had a good chance of improving their standard of living,” the lowest figure since the survey began in 1987. And according to 70% of respondents, the American Dream no longer holds true or never did. That figure is the highest in 15 years.
In full carnival barker mode, Trump is once again claiming “we have the hottest economy on Earth.” But the respondents to the Wall Street Journal-NORC poll aren’t buying it. Just 17% agreed that the U.S. economy “stands above all other economies.” And more than twice that many, 39%, responded that “there are other economies better than the United States.” It’s a hard sell when the inflation-adjusted weekly wages of nonsupervisory workers are still lower than what they had been in 1973, now more than half a century ago.
And economic worries are pervasive. Three-fifths (59%) of respondents were concerned about their student loan debt, more than two-thirds (69%) were concerned about housing, and three-quarters (76%) were concerned about health care and prescription drug costs.
Rising housing costs have hit young adults especially hard. The median price of a home in 1990 was three times the median household income. In 2023, that figure had reached nearly five times the median household income. And the average age of a first-time homebuyer had increased from 29 in 1980 to 38 in 2024."
https://www.dollarsandsense.org/the-american-dream-we-hardly-knew-you/
#USA #SocialMobility #Capitalism #Economy #PoliticalEconomy #Inequality
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NEXT WEEK - #CPCCGWebinar 27 Nov
🧑🏫 Ayse Guveli, Professor of #Sociology at the University of #Warwick, will discuss the consequences and long-term impact of #migration on #migrants using research from the 2000 #Families and The Third #Generation projects.
Register to join us online - all welcome: https://www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/event_calendar/955/CPC_CG_Webinar__Ayse_Guveli
#demography #socialscience #immigration #geography #Turkey #socialinequalities #socialmobility #family #lifecourse
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There's an interesting paradox in the focus on social mobility in much education & social policy.
If status (which is what social mobility is partly about) is relative & is quite strongly related to income, then for people to rise up the ranks (to be socially mobile upwards) others, must surely be falling, either in absolute or relative terms.
(And for anyone about to quote the 'lump of labour' fallacy, this is why I focussed on relative status not absolute incomes.)
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Social success not about who you know – it’s about knowing who knows whom https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/20/social-climbing-stanford-university-research #Highereducation #Socialetiquette #Socialmobility #Lifeandstyle #Friendship #Worldnews #Education #Students #Society #Science
