Social Mobility for the 21st Century addresses experiences of social mobility, and the detailed processes through which entrenched, intergenerationally transmit

Social mobility is the hope of economic development and the mantra of a good society. There are disagreements about what constitutes social mobility, but there

Based on a novel class scheme and a unique compilation of German and American data, this book reveals that intergenerational class mobility increased over most

"How much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents? How much does this influence our children? More than we wish to believe! While it h

Taking apart the ideology of the "middle class" Tidings of a shrinking middle class in one part of the world and its expansion in another absorb our attention,