Social mobility : and its enemies
Major, Lee Elliot2018
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What are the effects of decreasing social mobility? How does education help - and hinder - us in improving our life chances? Why are so many of us stuck on the same social rung as our parents? Apart from the USA, Britain has the lowest social mobility in the Western world. The lack of movement in who gets where in society - particularly when people are stuck at the bottom and the top - costs the nation dear, both in terms of the unfulfilled talents of those left behind and an increasingly detached elite, disinterested in improvements that benefit the rest of society.
Main title:
Social mobility : and its enemies / Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin.
Author:
Major, Lee Elliot, authorMachin, Stephen, author
Imprint:
UK : Pelican, 2018.
Collation:
259 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 18 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780241317020 (pbk)
Dewey class:
305.5130941
LC class:
HN400.S65
Local class:
305.513
Language:
English
BRN:
2287170
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