Peter Füssy for the Urban Cycling Institute, explores how children’s books reinforce car-oriented thinking from an early age and argues that radical children’s literature can help reimagine urban futures by challenging motonormativity and opening space for alternative mobility imaginaries.
#urbanism #urbanplanning #inequality #socialmobility #sustainability
“The idea of #socialmobility has functioned as a powerful #sociodicy in U.S. society … justifying the existence of significant #inequalities on the grounds that any one individual has the (theoretical) possibility of climbing up the social ladder” open.substack.com/pub/victorsh...
Sociodicy (Key Concept)
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
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.)
South Korea’s social mobility “ladder” is under scrutiny as soaring real estate prices, education inequality, and shifting government policies fuel public frustration, even as the KOSPI hits record highs and officials urge a move from property to equities for wealth accumulation.
#YonhapInfomax #KOSPI #RealEstate #SocialMobility #EducationInequality #WealthAccumulation #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=88103
Do I have to be asleep to achieve the American Dream?
#americandream #usa #americans #socialmobility #dreams #americanculture
Report Highlights Growing Wealth Gap and Declining Social Mobility in the UK
A new report by the Resolution Foundation highlights the growing wealth gap in the UK, suggesting that it's becoming nearly impossible for average workers to amass enough savings to reach the upper echelons of wealth. The study reveals that it would take an average earner 52 years of nearly saving a... [More info]
OnlineFirst - "Unravelling neighbourhood change: Decomposing the effects of residential mobility and incumbent change on credit access in California" by Alex Ramiller:
#neighbourhoodchange #residentialmobility #socialmobility #gentrification #creditscores
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0308518X251369351
Broken Barriers = This one's straight from the soul! - #Music #Popular #Pop #Rock #Music #Song #EconomicInequality #HerdMentality #WealthDisparity #EconomicReform #SocialMobility #PowerDynamics #FinancialActivism #MormonUpbringing #SystemicChange #EconomicAnalysis #TradingFloorExperience #RaisingAwareness #RestructuringSociety #EconomistsCritique #AlternativePerspectives - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-_OCWNUflo
Inclusion isn’t about fast tracks. It’s about fair ones.
Years ago, I lost out on a permanent role at a Dutch museum, despite stepping in last minute to
co-ordinate international group tours for a Rembrandt exhibition. 🧵
#inclusion #diversity #socialmobility #publicsector #equity #traumainformed
Civil service interns must all...
Freedom Traded for Security - Tom Bilyeu
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
Social climbing isn’t about who you know after all, study finds https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/20/social-climbing-stanford-university-research #Highereducation #Socialetiquette #Socialmobility #Lifeandstyle #Friendship #Worldnews #Education #Students #Society #Science
If you went to state school, do you ever feel British life is rigged against you? Welcome to the 93% Club | Alastair Campbell https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/19/state-school-britain-93-club-privately-educated #AlastairCampbell #Socialmobility #Privateschools #Education #Politics #Schools
The #StudentLoan system was created to keep people mired in debt and limit student radicalism, forcing them into viewing education as a career path. The financial system is rigged to keep the rich wealthy and slow or stop #SocialMobility (we rank 27th globally). #CapitalismKills
"Our capital allocators – who, during the post-war, post-New Deal era were often drawn from working families – are now increasingly, relentlessly born to that role.
For the wealthy, this is the origin of the meritocracy to eugenics pipeline. If power and privilege are inherited – and they are, ever moreso every day – then either we live in an extremely unfair society in which the privileged and the powerful have rigged the game…or the invisible hand has created a subspecies of thoroughbred humans who were literally born to rule.
This is the thesis of the ultra-rich, the moral justification for rigging the system so that their failsons and faildaughters will give rise to faildestinies of failgrandkids and failgreat-grandkids, whose emergence from history's luckiest orifices guarantees them a lifelong tenure ordering other people around. It's the justification for some people being born to own the places where the rest of us live, and the rest of us paying them half our salaries just so we don't end up sleeping on the sidewalk.
"Hereditary meritocracy" is just a polite way of saying "eugenics." It starts from the premise of the infallible invisible hand and then attributes all inequality in society to the hand's perfect judgment, its genetic insight in picking the best people for the best jobs. If people of one race are consistently on top of the pile, that's the market telling you something about their genomes. If men consistently fare better in the economy than women, the invisible hand is trying to say something about the Y chromosome for anyone with ears to hear.
Capitalism's winners have always needed "a superior moral justification for selfishness," a discreet varnish to shine up the old divine right of kings."
https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/20/big-cornflakes-energy/#caliper-pilled
#Capitalism #Inequality #SocialMobility #Meritocracy #Eugenics
Defining a "good life" vs. an emotional high - take the quiz here https://buff.ly/hs7jQS4
How to #flourish –– even when you aren’t at your happiest, according to research | CNN https://buff.ly/gEITvkS
#happiness #socialmobility #health #relationships #financialsecurity
Anthony Heath and Yaojun Li provide "a fascinating account of how sociologists [...] have succeeded in developing and testing theories about the causes, trends, and consequences of social mobility."
Read Stefan Andrade's thorough review of recently published Social Mobility 👇
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00016993241287430
#sociology #socialmobility #stratification #bookreview
@sociology @academicchatter
#Homeownership #WealthInequality #SocialMobility #Housing
🏠 Who gets to own a home – and why?
New study by @jascha_draeger @nrmllr and @klauspforr shows:
➡️ #Inheritances & family gifts – even just expected – strongly influence who buys property. They account for up to 54% of homeownership gaps between social classes. Without these transfers, children from working-class families are far less likely to buy a home.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103190
Check out the newly published conference report “The Empire and I: Individuals in Empires and Postimperial Spaces”! The conference was organised by @GRK2571 at @unifreiburg (28–30 Nov 2024).
Written by Lara Forster & Kaja Plate, it explores personal perspectives on imperial frameworks.
🔗Read it here: https://t1p.de/conf-rep-24
@dfg_public @histodons @histodon #empires #histodon #histodons #conference #postimperial #academicpublishing #imperialbiographies #socialmobility #romanempire #ottomanhistory #habsburgempire #colonialhistory #genderedspaces #globalhistory #institutions #earlymodernhistory
