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Social Mobility
Anthony Heath, Yaojun Li
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R500
Discovery Miles 5 000
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Social mobility has long been one of the central topics of
sociology. It has been the subject of major theoretical
contributions from the earliest generations of scholars, as well as
being of persistent political interest and concern. Social mobility
is frequently used as a key measure of fairness and social justice,
given the central role that modern liberal democracies give to
equality of opportunity. More pragmatically, policymakers often
consider it a force for economic growth and social integration.
  However, discussions of social mobility have
increasingly become dominated by advanced statistical techniques,
impenetrable to all but specialists in quantitative methods. In
this concise and lucid book, Anthony Heath and Yaojun Li cut
through the technical literature to provide an eye-opening account
of the ideas, debates and realities that surround this important
social phenomenon. Their book illuminates the major patterns and
trends in rates of social mobility, and their drivers, in
contemporary western and emerging societies, ultimately enabling
readers to understand and engage with this perennially relevant
social issue.Â
Do second-generation ethnic minorities, those born and brought up
in Britain, increasingly adopt British attitudes, values and ways
or life, or do they, as some commentators have claimed, remain
isolated from the mainstream? This study maps the extent of
generational change among Britain's ethnic minority population and
explores the underlying processes involved. It asks whether
generational change has been in the direction of greater
integration, or whether some minorities been slower to integrate,
perhaps as a result of the prejudice and discrimination from the
white British that they have encountered or because of desires to
maintain ethnic values and resist Western practices. The study
draws on the most recent and most authoritative British data to
answer these questions. Chapter authors include leading authorities
both from Britain and America, including Mary Waters (Harvard),
Lucinda Platt (LSE) and Anthony Heath, CBE (Oxford and Manchester)
as well as a new generation of young scholars. It will be essential
reading both for students and scholars working on ethnic relations
and for policy-makers and the wider public interested in questions
of social cohesion, multiculturalism and integration. This book was
originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial
Studies.
Do second-generation ethnic minorities, those born and brought up
in Britain, increasingly adopt British attitudes, values and ways
or life, or do they, as some commentators have claimed, remain
isolated from the mainstream? This study maps the extent of
generational change among Britain's ethnic minority population and
explores the underlying processes involved. It asks whether
generational change has been in the direction of greater
integration, or whether some minorities been slower to integrate,
perhaps as a result of the prejudice and discrimination from the
white British that they have encountered or because of desires to
maintain ethnic values and resist Western practices. The study
draws on the most recent and most authoritative British data to
answer these questions. Chapter authors include leading authorities
both from Britain and America, including Mary Waters (Harvard),
Lucinda Platt (LSE) and Anthony Heath, CBE (Oxford and Manchester)
as well as a new generation of young scholars. It will be essential
reading both for students and scholars working on ethnic relations
and for policy-makers and the wider public interested in questions
of social cohesion, multiculturalism and integration. This book was
originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial
Studies.
When this volume was first published in 1976, exchange theory had
recently come into the fore in sociology as an attempt to develop
systematic theories of social behaviour comparable to those which
economics had developed. In doing so it borrowed from many
different intellectual traditions including economics and
anthropology, behavioural sociology and on the traditional concerns
of sociologists and social psychologists. Dr Heath provides a
systematic exposition of the principle components of exchange
theory, and goes on to give a critique of these theories, paying
particular attention to the success of their empirical
applications. He concludes that exchange theory, despite its
limitations, has an important part to play in the development of
social science and is one of the most promising theories available.
Rational Choice and Social Exchange will be of interest to anyone
concerned with the development of social science and in particular
to students of sociology, anthropology, psychology and political
science.
An analysis of the enduring social costs of the post-2008 economic
crisis 2008 was a watershed year for global finance. The banking
system was eventually pulled back from the brink, but the world was
saddled with the worst slump since the 1930s Depression, and
millions were left unemployed. While numerous books have addressed
the financial crisis, very little has been written about its social
consequences. Journalist Tom Clark draws on the research of a
transatlantic team led by Professors Anthony Heath and Robert D.
Putnam to determine the great recession's toll on individuals,
families, and community bonds in the United States and the United
Kingdom. The ubiquitous metaphor of the crisis has been an
all-encompassing "financial storm," but Clark argues that the data
tracks the narrow path of a tornado-destroying some neighborhoods
while leaving others largely untouched. In our vastly unequal
societies, disproportionate suffering is being meted out to the
poor-and the book's new analysis suggests that the scars left by
unemployment and poverty will linger long after the economy
recovers. Politicians on both sides of the Atlantic have shown more
interest in exploiting the divisions of opinion ushered in by the
slump than in grappling with these problems. But this hard-hitting
analysis provides a wake-up call that all should heed.
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Social Mobility
Anthony Heath, Yaojun Li
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R1,422
Discovery Miles 14 220
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Social mobility has long been one of the central topics of
sociology. It has been the subject of major theoretical
contributions from the earliest generations of scholars, as well as
being of persistent political interest and concern. Social mobility
is frequently used as a key measure of fairness and social justice,
given the central role that modern liberal democracies give to
equality of opportunity. More pragmatically, policymakers often
consider it a force for economic growth and social integration.
  However, discussions of social mobility have
increasingly become dominated by advanced statistical techniques,
impenetrable to all but specialists in quantitative methods. In
this concise and lucid book, Anthony Heath and Yaojun Li cut
through the technical literature to provide an eye-opening account
of the ideas, debates and realities that surround this important
social phenomenon. Their book illuminates the major patterns and
trends in rates of social mobility, and their drivers, in
contemporary western and emerging societies, ultimately enabling
readers to understand and engage with this perennially relevant
social issue.Â
This book provides a timely reassessment of the relationship
between social research and social reform. A. H. Halsey's work on
educational opportunity is a particularly significant example of
the study of this relationship, and his retirement from the
directorship of the Department of Social and Administrative Studies
at the University of Oxford provides an opportunity to review his
contribution to date. It has been a rare oeuvre, combining a strong
moral commitment to egalitarian social reform with a vigorous
concern for evidence and quantitative research. In this book
leading scholars attempt to come to terms with Professor Halsey's
contribution by offering essays in their own specialisms that
reflect his continuing influence on their work. The range of
subjects covered reflects the breadth of his influence and
interests: Canon Barnett on ethical socialism; changing conceptions
of social work; community and citizenship; social groups and
movements within both State and market; an assessment of European
Poverty Programmes; the reform of secondary education; options for
reform of post-16 education and training; higher education policy
in Britain and the USA; social mobility and meritocracy; the role
of social research in community development; women's studies in
sociology, and the role of evaluation research in social policy in
the USA and Sweden. In the face of current scepticism about its
effectiveness, Social Research and Social Reform provides important
evidence on the influence of social research and suggests new ways
in which its relationship to social reform should be viewed.
The book provides a comprehensive and authoritative study of the
patterns of ethnic educational inequality among the 'second
generation' (that is of the children of migrants born in the
country of destination) in secondary schools and higher education
in ten western countries - Belgium, Britain, Canada, Finland,
France, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the USA.
These are countries which have become increasingly diverse in
recent years and which provide a range of educational systems,
immigration rules, and integration policies. The experience of the
second generation, who have been born and educated in the countries
of destination, is widely seen as being a crucial test of whether
western liberal democracies live up to their professed ideals of
fairness and meritocracy. Education is likely to be crucial for the
future integration of ethnic minorities, with important
implications for social cohesion. The book investigates the
educational careers of the second-generation groups using
large-scale national datasets and harmonised analyses of outcomes
in order to identify patterns of success and failure in education
and the mechanisms underlying such inequalities. It examines
whether such differences can be attributed to immigration policies
of the receiving countries, the structure of the education system,
the poverty of the sending countries, their cultural differences
from the destination country, the degree of 'positive selection' of
the migrants, or to more specific characteristics of particular
ethnic minorities. It provides a rigorous description and
quantification of ethnic inequalities in education and makes
important progress in explaining existing inequalities.
Designed for family therapists, this book offers stories,
exercises, self-assessments and evaluative techniques to improve
observational skills, enhance clinical work and encourage
meaningful research. The authors discuss their views on hearing
stories, observing data and analyzing speech, creating an engaging
and learning experience.
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