UK social mobility at its worst in over 50 years, report finds https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/sep/07/social-mobility-uk-worst-50-years-report-finds #uk #ukpolitics #tories #inequality #socialmobility

2) Here's a chart which compares the cost by country of going to school for Medicine vs Software development. There is a very isolated point for the USA

#Sweden, #Finland and #Denmark are all clustered at the zero marker - you can't even see them

#Education #College #SocialMobility

In light of today's ruling by the US #SupremeCourt on the reversal of #CollegeDebt forgiveness.

I wonder whoose interest the court serves? Is it the students burdened with excessive debt or the combination of Universities and FIinancial Instituions?

This chart paints a pretty ugly image of the annual cost of college in the USA when compared to other countries. Something does not smell good here

#Education #SocialMobility #USpolitics #Politics

The black-white gap in household wealth animated across generations: Black children tend to have less wealthy parents and are far more likely to be downwardly mobile.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31312720

@FabianPfeffer #NICHDImpact #Race #Wealth #SocialMobility #WealthGap #EconomicInequality

... also - and observing from a highly anecdotal/experiential standpoint -
local kids educated in #UK comprehensive schools getting uni places in high-ranking unis get very mixed reactions from the parents of the privately-educated kids:

£50Kpa+ spent on private-school tuition fees by UK parents hoping to gain social advantage for their offspring leaves them with a v. bitter after-taste when the bright yet poorer kids get a look in
#CriticalRealism #HigherEducation
#SocialClass
#SocialMobility

These money managers, lawyers, and overpaid babysitters who can keep even the most Habsburg jawed #nepobaby in turnip-sized million-dollar watches and performance automobiles and organ replacements for their whole, interminable lives:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/19/dynastic-wealth/#caste

But it's not just that the America rich stay rich - it's that the American poor stay poor. America is a world-trailing loser in the internation #SocialMobility league-table.

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#Einstein #EinsteinsBrain #CottonFields #SweatShops #Opportunity #OpportunityGap #Equality #Mobility #SocialMobility #Gini #GiniCoefficient #Talent #Gould #StephenJayGould

#Einstein #EinsteinsBrain #CottonFields #SweatShops #Opportunity #OpportunityGap #Equality #Mobility #SocialMobility #Gini #GiniCoefficient #Talent #Gould #StephenJayGould

An interesting survey by Ben Anstell on the current state of social mobility and aspiration in England. One of the key drivers is that young people now find themselves shut out from the housing market to an extent that simply didn't apply to their parents and grandparents.

https://open.substack.com/pub/benansell/p/aspiration-nation?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

#SocialMobility #SocialAspiration #education #inequality #rent #housing #RentGouging #InterGenerationalInequality #generations

Rising U.S. inequality hinders social mobility:

“As inequality increases, upper-class parents transfer greater amounts of money to their children, while lower-class parents are less likely to give money, give smaller amounts on average, and are more likely to co-reside.”

Preprint: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/g8yv2/

Mastodonian author: @ginevra

#Inequality
#SocialMobility
#SocialClass
#Sociology
@sociology

Better FE outcomes data will boost social mobility #socialmobility #furthereducation #apprenticeships #colleges https://feweek.co.uk/improving-social-mobility-demands-better-data-on-fe-outcomes/

via João Pedro Azevedo:

High-income parents teach their children independence, low-income parents teach obedience. The evidence in the graphs below is striking. An interesting theoretical model on how family values interact with #SocialMobility. https://www.nber.org/papers/w29125
#inequality

I used to work as a casual AV technician at the National Theatre. It was a great pleasure working there. While there, I had the pleasure of seeing this quality play. So underrated. I absolutely loved it. On the surface the period seems remote for a modern audience. But you quickly relate to the characters and the ideas of aspiration, personal development, social mobility and fear of change. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Kk-titoLak

#nationaltheatre #pitmanpainters #socialmobility

Good stuff from A. Cottica (2013): #Meritocracy is scary http://www.cottica.net/2013/12/15/meritocracy-is-scary/ #inequality #socialMobility #socialLadder #xenophobia #populism

(2020) "Why the rich are revolting"??? https://unherd.com/2020/06/why-the-rich-are-revolting/ #socialMobility #racism #history #inequality

Meritocracy only goes so far.

Research shows that a working class background still holds back even those who have managed to 'get on' in life.

Read the latest story on outHouse...

https://markcantrell.substack.com/p/social-class-remains-master-of-our

#socialclass #workingclass #socialmobility #society

Thanks for mentioning '“The Best Country in the World”: The Surprising Social Mobility of New York’s Irish-Famine Immigrants' in Jo of Interdisciplinary History.
This is an important article https://doi.org/10.1162/jinh_a_01869

@bullivant @econhist @migrationresearch @histodons @immigration #IrishFamine #Irish #migration #Immigration #mobility #socialmobility #occupation #inequality #history #economics #sociology #demography #ethnic

This is some amazing data crunching. ⁦@TheIFS@twitter.com⁩ has analysed the LEO dataset for ⁦@suttontrust@twitter.com⁩ and, apart from proving the obvious –that unis are great engines of #SocialMobility – has provided a comparison of which courses and unis fare best. https://buff.ly/3p2C7tl

via Steve Stewart-Williams:
We tend to assume that people who are born poor and get rich will be more sympathetic to the plight of the poor than will those who are born rich and stay rich. But it's the other way around.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/19485506221098921

becoming rich may shift views about the poor in ways that run counter to common intuitions and cultural assumptions

#empathy #SocialMobility #Redistribution #ses

@newstatesman @20thCenturyMarc @cendawanita the whole - #nepobabies thing is like, where have you been, people?

Rule number one in life has always been to choose your parents well.

There was a brief moment in 'murka where that wasn't so—like '45-75.

The libs have been saying this for ages. #socialmobility etc etc.