‘To become upwardly mobile you have to be a Swede’

Sohl, Lena

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“…Because I knew myself that without a German school, without a German school certificate, there are stones everywhere! Here, the second point in Damla's mother's account -the importance of 'German' schooling -was strongly reminiscent of the narratives found by Lena Sohl (2018) in her study of class mobility in Sweden. While Sohl (2018) also focused on upwardly mobile individuals themselves, most of her interviewees also stressed that their parents had encouraged their children to study at school and university -aiming not only to leave behind the workingclass status, but also to counter their experiences of racism and racialisation.…”

Section: Diverging Perceptions Of Upward Mobilitymentioning

confidence: 84%

“…In doing so, they offer an empirically sensitive and politically committed analysis of social-space travel and its gendered and racialised dimensions (Cole & Omari, 2003; Curl et al, 2018; Friedman, 2022; Ingram, 2011; Lawler, 1999; Mallman, 2017a; Morton, 2019; Walkerdine, 2003). Moreover, a growing body of research beyond the context of the UK and USA has shed light on how these experiences and meaning-making processes play out in different international settings (Álvarez-Rivadulla et al, 2023; Born, 2023; Burns et al, 2023; Fercovic, 2022; Jin & Ball, 2020; Naudet, 2018; Schneider et al, 2022; Shahrokni, 2018; Sohl, 2018).…”

Section: Upward Social Mobility Research and Its Empirical Focusmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The price of the ticket revised: Family members’ experiences of upward social mobility

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The Sociological Review

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In recent years, there has been a revived sociological interest in assessing the lived experience of upward social mobility. Several qualitative accounts have highlighted the negative emotional imprints of upward mobility, whereas quantitative researchers have suggested that the picture is far more optimistic. However, both strands of literature rely too narrowly on the perspectives of the upwardly mobile individuals themselves. Against this empirical strategy, which is expressed in recent works on upward social mobility, this article turns attention on the family members of those who experienced upward mobility. Drawing on biographical interviews with upwardly mobile individuals and their family members, the article explores, firstly, the participants’ diverging experiences and assessments of upward mobility, and secondly, how the process affects not only the emotional life of the upwardly mobile individuals themselves, but also of those who are commonly seen as having been ‘left behind’. In doing so, the article shows that including the voices of family members can refocus social mobility research on the wider psycho-social costs and consequences of what are often portrayed as stories of individual ‘success’.

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Section: Diverging Perceptions Of Upward Mobilitymentioning

confidence: 84%