Education, Social Origins and Career (Im)mobility in Contemporary Italy

Bison, Ivano

doi:10.1080/14616696.2011.568257

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“…Although class effects have weakened in Italy, the adverse influence of financial hardship is very persistent. This is pretty much in line with Bison's (2011) findings. Also, mothers' level of education has a relatively strong impact.…”

Section: Direct Effects Of Social Origins On Income Attainmentsupporting

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Asymmetries in the opportunity structure. Intergenerational mobility trends in Europe

Esping‐Andersen

Wagner

2012

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility

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It remains unclear whether social mobility is increasing in the advanced nations. The answer may depend on mobility patterns within very recent birth cohorts. We use the inter-generational module in the 2005 EU-SILC which allows us to include more recent cohorts. Comparing across two Nordic and three Continental European countries, we estimate inter-generational mobility trends for sons both indirectly, via social origin effects on educational attainment, and directly in terms of adult income attainment. In line with other studies we find substantially more mobility in Scandinavia, but also that traditionally less mobile societies, like Spain, are moving towards greater equality. We focus particularly on non-linear relations. Most interestingly, we reveal evident asymmetries in the process of equalizing life chances, in Denmark. The disadvantages associated with low social class origins have largely disappeared, but the advantages related to privileged origins persist.

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Section: Direct Effects Of Social Origins On Income Attainmentsupporting

confidence: 90%

Asymmetries in the opportunity structure. Intergenerational mobility trends in Europe

Esping‐Andersen

Wagner

2012

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility

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“…Few studies, however, have fulfilled this alleged promise, and an appeal to turn to sequential tools for studying class mobility is evident even in the most recent contributions in the field (Friedman and Savage 2018). For the Italian case, Bison (2011) identifies 15 careers paths and shows that the majority of class trajectories are characterized by immobility. A regression analysis suggests that the probability of experiencing a downward career is inversely associated with class origins and educational credentials.…”

Section: Sequences Of Class Eventsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The acknowledgement of such drawbacks has spurred some attempts to capture class trajectories as a whole sequence of events, rather than emphasizing some features of work-life mobility (such as the duration of posts held). SA -originally introduced from biology by Andrew Abbott -has been suggested not only as a means of finding resemblance in work careers in general (e.g., Abbott and Hrycak 1990, Araujo 2018, Blair-Loy 1999, Bühlmann 2008, Pollock, Antcliff and Ralphs 2002, Stovel, Savage and Bearman 1996 but also as an alternative to class mobility in particular (Bison 2011, Bukodi et al 2016, Bühlmann 2010, Chan 1995, Halpin and Chan 1998. As described in more detail in chapter 6, SA finds resemblance between pair-wise sequences of events by accounting for whether states occur of the same duration, in the same order and at the same time in the sequence.…”

Section: Sequences Of Class Eventsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…seems relatively modest (for fairly recent "reviews and prospects," see, e.g., Aisenbrey and Fasang 2010, Blanchard, Bühlmann and Gauthier 2014, Brzinsky-Fay and Kohler 2010). As noted above, within the field of class mobility, sequence analytical techniques are only scantly applied as an alternative to the mobility table, save for some important exceptions (Bison 2011, Bukodi et al 2016, Bühlmann 2010, Chan 1995, Halpin and Chan 1998.…”

Section: Social Sequence Analysis: the Structure Of Timementioning

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Enduring contexts: Segregation by affluence throughout the life course

Toft

2017

The Sociological Review

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All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without permission. Cover: Hanne Baadsgaard Utigard. Print production: Reprosentralen, University of Oslo. I am indebted to my two supervisors-Marianne Nordli Hansen and Johs. Hjellbrekke-for their invaluable help over the course of these past years. Not only have they read and re-read countless drafts and provided prompt and insightful remarks, but they have also always done so in a manner that has never made me lose faith in my own project or doubt their encouragement with regard to my pursuit of sociology. In addition to having massive respect for their sociological knowledge, I find them both to be particularly inclusive and generous in their supervision. By including me in research seminars, international workshops and networks, they have invited me to partake in a larger field of like-minded sociologists. For this invitation and so much more, I am very grateful.

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“…Although Halpin and Chan (), two decades ago, argued that SA had a promising future in studying class mobility, relatively few studies have used this tool for this purpose (but see, e.g., Chan ; Bühlmann ; Bison ; Bukodi, Goldthorpe, Halpin and Waller ). Of particular relevance for the present study is Bühlmann's () analysis of pathways to the British service class as he draws attention to different class fractions separating the careers of managers, professionals and associate professionals.…”

Section: Temporality and The Class Structurementioning

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Mobility closure in the upper class: assessing time and forms of capital

Toft

2018

British Journal of Sociology

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Most understandings of the ways classes become social groupings centre on processes of mobility closure whereby mutual appreciation and recognition within classes arise from homogenous experiences over time. The mapping of such structured biographies, however, remains understudied. This paper explores intra- and intergenerational mobility patterns in the upper strata of the Norwegian class structure and aims to include temporal processes and multiple forms of capital in the quantification of class trajectories. By combining multiple correspondence analysis and social sequence analysis, two important but often neglected aspects of recruitment to the upper class are emphasized: first, by introducing multiple forms of capital, different ways of maintaining mobility closure are demonstrated; second, different pathways to power are highlighted by distinguishing between divergent class careers. A key aim of the analysis is to explore internal divisions within the upper class in forms of parental capital (an 'origin space') and link these divisions to a typology of 'destination careers' in adulthood. The analysis suggests that individuals from modest origins are more likely to have careers that feature a biographically late arrival and/or short-term affiliations to upper-class positions whereas individuals from families rich in capital are more likely to have stable careers in the upper-class fractions from which they originate. The analysis thus reveals important divisions in the trajectories of Norwegians who reach the upper class; not only are there differences in their upbringing in terms of the availability of different amounts and types of capital but such divisions also seem linked to their own class careers later in adulthood.

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Education, Social Origins and Career (Im)mobility in Contemporary Italy

Cited by 13 publications

References 8 publications

Asymmetries in the opportunity structure. Intergenerational mobility trends in Europe

Asymmetries in the opportunity structure. Intergenerational mobility trends in Europe

Enduring contexts: Segregation by affluence throughout the life course

Mobility closure in the upper class: assessing time and forms of capital

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