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Book Review – Le Déclassement
Camille Peugny‘s Le Déclassement stands in the tradition of sociology of social stratification and social mobility. The book is composed of Peugny’s study on this topic, not just as a feeling of...
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The Great Illusion: Dominant Ideology and Social Mobility
Via Paul Krugman, this is what Americans believe (click on the image for larger view): And this is what is (partly) leads to: I especially like this paragraph from Krugman: “So when you hear...
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Book Review – Celebrity Culture and The American Dream
Karen Sternheimer‘s Celebrity Culture and The American Dream is a good book to add to an introduction to sociology course if you want to give your students a good sense of how sociology analyzes...
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Book Review – Chavs
I have already posted on Owen Jones‘s Chavs: The Demonization of The Working Class (see here and here). Another good subtitle for this book could be “the not-so-hidden injuries of class” (to riff on...
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Book Review – The Last Gunfight
I read Jeff Guinn’s The Last Gunfight: The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral – And How It Changed the American West because of Lance Mannion’s review of it and you should all just and read...
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Book Review – Les Places et Les Chances
I confess to being a big fan of the République des Idées collection from publisher Seuil. This collection is great for short works on sociology of inequalities, work as well as economic sociology....
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Explaining The Growth of The Precariat: Global Commodification, Flexibility,...
This is another installment in a series of posts (here and here) I intend to write as I work my way through Guy Standing‘s The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class. In this section, the main topic will...
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Social mobility, Social Inequalities and Precarization as Social Pollution
Via this article from the New York Times… If there is one positive thing that has come out of the economic mess and social movements worldwide, it is a well-deserved focus on social inequalities and...
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Exploring Social Mobility Through Visualizations
Ok, so, I am getting towards the end of my MOOC and for our last project, we were asked to come up with our own idea and topics and think about how to visualize them and basically have these...
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More Visualization of Social Mobility by Gender
One of my classmates suggested I unstack the bars in my previous visualization of international comparison of social mobility, by gender and class of origin. He was right, the pattern I noted becomes...
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