Consolazio, David Sarti, Simone Terraneo, Marco
Published in
Scandinavian journal of public health
Socio-economic inequalities originate from several channels, one of which is family origins, with clear effects on people's health. This paper aims to evaluate the role played by social mobility in determining health inequalities, relying on Blau and Duncan's status attainment model and focusing specifically on two moments of social reproduction of...
Smirnova, Inna Reitzig, Markus Sorenson, Olav
We argue that the actions for which actors receive recognition vary as they move up the hierarchy. When actors first enter a community, the community rewards them for their easier-to-evaluate contributions to the community. Eventually, however, as these actors rise in status, further increases in stature come increasingly from engaging in actions t...
Bühlmann, Felix Schoenberger, François Ajdacic, Lena Foureault, Fabien
Published in
The British journal of sociology
Status attainment theories assert that individuals are recruited based on the length and functional background of their training. Elite theories assume that top managers often deviate from these socially acceptable mechanisms of status attainment to entrench their advantage. In this study, focusing on the US financial sector, we investigate whether...
Zhao, Jing Wang, Zhong Wang, Chenyu Han, Liming Ruan, Yaohui Huangfu, Zhounan Zhou, Shuai Zhou, Lei
Published in
Frontiers in Psychology
Culture is the bloodline of the nation and the spiritual home of the people. Intangible cultural heritage (ICH) belongs to the field of culture, and the transmission of ICH is a kind of human-based cultural transmission, which is the shaping of people’s morality, character, sentiment, will, ideals and beliefs, value orientation, humanistic cultivat...
Rotariu, Traian
Published in
Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Sociologia
The role of the school in the process of status attainment for individuals with different social origins should be analysed both from the perspective of social mobility flows (absolute rates of mobility) and inequality of social chances (relative rates and odds ratios). Inspired by Raymond Boudon’s earlier studies in the 1970s, the author scrutinis...
Flippen, Chenoa A. Farrell-Bryan, Dylan
While nearly three decades of new immigrant destination research has vastly enriched our understanding of diversity in contexts of reception within the United States, there is a striking lack of consensus as to the implications of geographic dispersion for immigrant incorporation. We review the literature on new destinations as they relate to ongoi...
Mortimer, Jeylan T Lee, Mark
Published in
Longitudinal and life course studies : international journal
Highly educated parents hold high educational expectations for their children, which influence children's motivation and achievement in school. However, it is unclear whether grandparents' (G1) education influences parents' (G2) expectations for children (G3) independently of, or in interaction with, parents' own education. We address this question...
Anni, Kätlin Mõttus, René
Published in
Scandinavian journal of psychology
The purpose of this study was to explore how individual and environmental predictors of intergenerational social mobility intersect in rarely studied post-communist developing society of Estonia. We used a contemporary cross-sectional dataset (n = 759) to assess the influence of cognitive ability and parental socioeconomic status to the participant...
gebrekidan, aradom
This paper scrutinized the links between social status and income of rural households to provide insight into how social status is indicated and used as a strategy for improving livelihood income. It also provides a brief look into some selected key determinants of livelihood income. We applied a two-stage least-squares estimation to household-leve...
Hadjar, Andreas Becker, Rolf
