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Showing 1 to 20 of 254 for “"social mobility"”.
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Kinship, Socialization and Social Mobility
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-11T17:49:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7207004.pdf: 13159752 bytes, checksum: 61a5cc55aae556c255f70e3bf87164b1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1971
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Social mobility of Greeks in Australia
… (Hellas) to Australia, particularly in terms of social mobility and political affiliation. The discussion of the theoretical framework includes an analysis of migration and social mobility, defining and placing both within socio-economic and sociohistorical contexts.
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Essays on Social Mobility and Distribution
… as circumstances) and the intergenerational social mobility experienced by them, as well as their human capital accumulation. It pays particular attention to the role played by the economic resources of the household of origin in producing differences in the economic outcomes across …
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Alternative measures of intergenerational social mobility in Argentina
Esta tesis solo está en formato papel por lo que se debe consultar en la propia Biblioteca Di Tella. La consulta se hace solo bajo reserva escribiendo a serviciosbiblio@utdt.edu.
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A Primary School's Role in Enacting Social Mobility
Pursuing a career in teaching and becoming a Head teacher of two schools would appear to be a strange career choice for a child who disliked school so much. However, it has given me the ability to reflect on my school days and analyse why I may have viewed school with such negativity. Conversely, …
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Alternative explanations of social mobility and political behavior
… an indication of an acculturation or partial resocialization process experienced by intergenerationally mobile individuals. More complicated hypotheses involving psychological factors such as stress, cross-pressure, and status needs were found to be unnecessary to explain the political behavior …
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Patterns of Social Mobility and Reaction to Crisis
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Begging the question : permanent income and social mobility
Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 35-37).
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Urbanhermes : fashion signaling and the social mobility of images
… individual's public identity, attempts to enrich social interaction and understand the cultural role of electronic fashion. The thesis, combining both social theory and technology, develops a fashion system that can enable further discussion in areas of signaling in sociable media design. We …
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Determinants of the Wife's Achieved and Expected Intergenerational Social Mobility
Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-13T15:26:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 7820927.PDF: 3473335 bytes, checksum: b3c79380a3b021e5e425e29f6ced83e9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1978
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How social status shapes U.S. children’s beliefs about social mobility
Children grow up within social hierarchies that shape their everyday lives. Social mobility is a core mechanism through which societies either challenge or maintain existing inequalities. The present study examined how U.S. children’s social status—both experimentally manipulated and measured at …
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Patronage and social mobility in the aristocracies of the Principate
The dissertation is entitled "Patronage and social mobility in the aristocracies of the Principate". Patronage is defined as a reciprocal exchange relationship between men of unequal social status (municipal patronage is excluded). The work falls into three parts. In the first the language of …
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Women as Fish: Physical Movement and Social Mobility in Contemporary Vietnam
… examines the changing rurality and the profound social stratification in contemporary Vietnam through the lens of rural-to-rural female migration. It is based on eighteen months of ethnographic research in a rural offshore fishing community in northern Vietnam called Hải Thành. I study the …
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Fiscal Federalism, Social Mobility, and Poverty Alleviation: Essays in Political Economy
The third essay on poverty alleviation treats welfare transfers as a public good which eliminates the public bad of poverty. Local governments establish minimum consumption thresholds for the poor, financed by proportional income taxation. Despite the fact that income transfers are negative for a …
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Social mobility, Australian rules football and the Aboriginal athlete: a contemporary perspective
… relation to opportunities for achieving upward social mobility. International research into the relationship between race, ethnicity and sport has suggested that professional sports participation may positively assist members of minority groups to achieve upward social mobility.
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The Jackie Robinson myth : social mobility and race in Montreal, 1920-1960
… in jobs, in housing and in the city's social life. Yet, some Blacks of the Robinson era made considerable socio-economic gains. The question is whether their success was the result of Montreal's tolerance or of other factors. This paper examines two Black Montrealers of the Robinson …
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Moving Up, Moving Out: Race and Social Mobility in Chicago, 1914--1972
… racial divisions in Chicago. I argue that upward mobility in the twentieth century allowed European-Americans to shed racial stigmas and doubts about their abilities to Americanize, creating neighborhoods and ideologies that posited ""white"" and ""middle class"" as synonymous. The white middle …
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Dogged Optimism: Striving and Waiting in Rural Chinese Students’ Negotiations of Social Mobility
… examines the arduous pursuit of upward social mobility among young students in a rural mountain township in Southeastern China. It explores how rural Chinese students from Watershed School (pseudonym) navigate and negotiate upward social mobility within stratified educational and social …
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Another urban grammar: Black perspectives on social mobility in twentieth century São Paulo
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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