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“Upper-class parents enable their kids to form weak ties by exposing them more often to organized activities, professionals, and other adults. Working-class children, on the other hand, are more likely to interact regularly only with kin and neighborhood children, which limits their formation of valuable weak ties.”

Book:Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis

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Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis

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Robert D. Putnam

Robert D. Putnam is an American political scientist renowned for his research on civil society, social capital, and the impact of globalization on democracy. He is a professor at Harvard University and is highly regarded for his insightful observations on public life. more

“For kids who are exposed to books at home, the loss of a library is sad. But for kids who come from environments where people don't read, the loss of a library is a tragedy hat might keep them from ever discovering the joys of reading-or from gathering the kind of information that will decide their lot in life.”

Reading Education Library Literacy Social Mobility

Author:Michael Moore

“We are just peasants with money.”

Money Working Class Social Mobility Truths Of Life

Author:A.H. Septimius

“Lors du recensement de 1931, il avait été estimé que les outcasts, tribes et autresdepressed classes, comme on appelait alors les intouchables et autres catégories discriminées dans la langue administrative britannique, et qui deviendront par la suite les scheduled castes et les scheduled tribes, regroupaient quelque 50 millions de personnes, soit environ 21 % des 239 millions d’hindous. À la fin des années 1920, des mouvements indépendantistes avaient lancé dans plusieurs provinces des opérations de boycott du recensement, qui recommandaient de ne pas indiquer de jati ni de varna aux agents recenseurs. Petit à petit, on passa d’un système où les recensements visaient à identifier les élites et les hautes castes, parfois pour leur garantir explicitement des droits et des privilèges, à la fin du XIXe siècle et au début du XXe siècle, à une logique visant au contraire à identifier les plus basses castes, dans le but de corriger les discriminations passées. En 1935, alors que des systèmes d’accès préférentiel à certains emplois publics étaient expérimentés par le gouvernement colonial pour les scheduled castes, on constata que certaines jatis qui s’étaient mobilisées dans les années 1890 pour être reconnues comme kshatriya et obtenir l’accès à certains temples et lieux publics, se mobilisaient à présent pour être considérées comme faisant partie des plus basses castes. Cela démontre de nouveau la plasticité des identités individuelles et leur adaptabilité aux incitations contradictoires créées par le pouvoir colonial.”

Social Mobility

Book:Capital and Ideology

Source: Capital and Ideology

“That’s the devil of things as they are now. As soon as any member of the working class shows ability as a leader, if he’s too rebellious to be collared as a foreman by the boss, the men make him an official and he steps right out of their class. Take Joan there. Now think what a power she would have been if she could have been kept in that shop where she used to work. Of course she would have got the sack and had to get another, but she’d have gone on fighting. What happens? She’s pretty (don’t blush, Joan), she’s clever, she is made an official. Then come along the Mary Mauds and the Anthony Dacres” (“and the Gerald Blains,” put in Dacre). “Quite. She is now a member of the middle class. Then she’ll get into Parliament and be quite a lady.”

Social Mobility