Middle-Class Mick
Tags: SOCIAL mobility; STATUS attainment; UPWARD mobility (Social sciences); SOCIAL status; EQUALITY; CLASS society
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- The Cost of Status Enhancement: Performance Effects of Individuals' Status Mobility in Task Groups. Bendersky, Corinne; Shah, Neha Parikh // Organization Science;Mar/Apr2012, Vol. 23 Issue 2, p308
The article discusses the performance impacts of the status mobility of individuals in task groups. It highlights two longitudinal studies in which the status conditions of middle managers enrolled in part-time Master in Business Administration (MBA) program at the start and end of the life of...
- Framing the Future: Revisiting the Place of Educational Expectations in Status Attainment. Bozick, Robert; Alexander, Karl; Entwisle, Doris; Dauber, Susan; Kerr, Kerri // Social Forces;Jul2010, Vol. 88 Issue 5, p2027
This study revisits the Wisconsin model of status attainment from a life course developmental perspective. Fixed-effects regression analyses lend strong support to the Wisconsin frameworks core proposition that academic performance and significant others' influence shape educational...
- Der avancierende Fremde: Zur Genese von Unsicherheitserfahrungen und Konflikten in einem ethnisch polarisierten und sozialr�umlich benachteiligten Stadtteil. H�ttermann, J�rg // Zeitschrift f�r Soziologie;aug2000, Vol. 29 Issue 4, p275
This article deals with the advancing stranger who surmounts the limits of ethnic stratification. Since he/she breaks out of the limits of social status embedded in day-to-day symbols, the advancing stranger becomes a social fact for sociologists. The advancing stranger questions the hierarchy...
- Salome of the Tenements, the American Dream and Class Performativity. Rottenberg, Catherine // American Studies (00263079);Spring2004, Vol. 45 Issue 1, p65
Argues that Anzia Yezierska's 1923 novel, "Salome of the Tenements," explicitly queries and dramatizes the logic of upward mobility and provides a fascinating staging of class conflict in Progressive-Era America. Plot and characters; Need to rethink class as a specific and unique modality of...
- ABBOTS ASCENDANT. Jordan, William Chester // History Today;Aug2009, Vol. 59 Issue 8, p50
The article discusses social mobility in 13th century Medieval Europe. The author examines ordinances by the Catholic Church that prohibited foreign clergy members to receive offices and rise to positions of power. He details the rivalry between two clergy members, Richard de Ware and Mathieu de...
- Pray that you're not polluted. Moran, Joe // New Statesman;3/21/2005, Vol. 134 Issue 4732, p14
Offers thoughts on postcodes in Great Britain. Social significance of postcodes, according to Carrie Segrave's "New London Property Guide"; History of postcodes in Britain; How the pioneering gentrifiers of the 1960s first saw the power of the postcode as a marker of upward mobility; Reference...
- Upward Wealth Mobility: Exploring the Roman Catholic Advantage. Keister, Lisa A. // Social Forces;Mar2007, Vol. 85 Issue 3, p1195
Wealth inequality is among tile most extreme forms of stratification in the United States, and upward wealth mobility is not common. Yet mobility is possible, and this paper takes advantage of trends among a unique group to explore the processes that generate mobility. I show that non-Hispanic...
- Britain's rich kids do better than ever. Cohen, Nick // New Statesman;3/21/2005, Vol. 134 Issue 4732, p31
Observes that class advantage has grown in Britain since the 1950s. Current perceptions of class; Suggestion that, far from being a meritocracy, Britain has become a country of castes; Findings of a series of studies which took two big surveys from the past half-century which followed newborn...
- Worries about 'upward mobility'. Reed, William // Michigan Citizen;8/12/2012, Vol. 34 Issue 40, pA7
The article presents results of the poll on the concerns of Americans about upward mobility.
