ERC Starting Grant · 2019
Social Class Mobility in Comparative Perspective: Bringing Siblings In
While sociologists studying how social class positions are passed on from parents to children emphasize the family as the basic theoretical unit of intergenerational transmission processes, the comparative literature on social class mobility has paid no attention to how and why siblings from the same family end up in the same or in different classes. Indeed, all existing class mobility studies examine the mobility of individuals, thereby neglecting the key question of how societal differences in class mobility patterns result from social processes operating at the level of families. SIBMOB will fill this puzzling gap in the class mobility literature by developing a comprehensive approach to…
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