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The article focuses on the book "Social Mobility in the Caste System in India. An Interdisciplinary Symposium," edited by James Silverberg. In the book, author aim to further an understanding of the nature, extent and significance of social mobility in a caste system and to uncover the mechanisms and determinants involved. The book offers a review of the sociological concern with social mobility in the caste system as a general set of processes. A set of four papers presents and evaluates evidence concerning social mobility, based in three instances on recent first-hand observations and in the fourth on data extracted from the medieval period by the techniques of the historian. The first two papers are the products of anthropological field research in rural communities: a South Indian case by researcher Edward B. Harper, who combines ethnographic and ethnohistorical methods; a North Indian case by researcher William L. Rowe, who gathered his ethnographic data not only among the Caubans of the village in which he lived but also from their city-dwelling caste fellows, the politicians and other professionals whom he interviewed in Bombay, India and several urban centres of North India.

Norma Fuentes-Mayorga's book, "From Homemakers to Breadwinners to Community Leaders: Migrating Women, Class, and Color," provides a humanistic account of the experiences of Dominican and Mexican women migrants in New York City. The book explores the resilience, resistance, and survival demonstrated by these women, highlighting their journeys as acts of courage. Fuentes-Mayorga's research examines the intersectionality and multiplicities of these women's migration stories, emphasizing the similarities and differences between them. The book also delves into the roles played by these migrant women in terms of class, education, gender, and race, both in their home countries and in the United States. It discusses the challenges and vulnerabilities they face, as well as their ability to overcome obstacles and transform themselves. The book aims to shed light on the inequality faced by immigrant women and advocate for better outcomes and justice for all. [Extracted from the article]

Reviews the book "Mobility in Britain Reconsidered," edited by J.M. Ridge.

The article presents a review of the book "Social Mobility and Social Structure," edited by Ronald L. Breiger.

The article reviews the book "Analyzing Inequality: Life Chances and Social Mobility in Comparative Perspective," edited by Stefan Svallfors.

Other narratives concentrate on the role of structural factors in health outcomes, which diminishes the role of action and notes the importance of intervention for health promotion strategies. Alongside economic growth, the United States has also experienced a widening distribution of wealth and income, resulting in stark inequalities. Often narratives examine health status through a lens of individualism, attributing behavioral challenges to health to lack of motivation or other failings. [Extracted from the article]

As the increasing discussion over social stratification and mobility indicates, the idea of "education changes destiny" has progressively been brought into question. In his classic study of British working-class boys from 1975, which is widely read in the fields of sociology, anthropology, and education, Paul Willis uncompromisingly revealed that liberal ideology about equal opportunity was only an empty promise and, more importantly, how the counter-cultural cognition and expression adopted the constraints of the structural conditions and at the same time leads to the reproduction of them. Despite the tragic mechanism behind the contradictory counter-culture, Willis remained optimistic about the radical potential in the symbolic works against dominant discourse. His in-depth ethnographic description didn't only contribute to the endless theoretical debate about Structure and Process, but also provided a methodological approach encouraging extensive fieldwork, in which he believed the "theoretical uncertainty" lies. Ethnography can really "become the intellectual education of those who are governed," if the scholars are willing to understand and communicate with the informal cultural groups and believe that their fate can be changed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book "Career Mobility Dynamics: A Comparative Analysis of the United States, Norway and West Germany," by Jutta Allmendinger.

Reviews the book "The Analysis of Social Mobility: Methods and Approaches," edited by Keith Hope.

Reviews the book "Social Stratification and Career Mobility," edited by Walter Muller and Karl Ulrich.

Reviews the book "The Contexts of Social Mobility: Ideology and Theory," by Anselm L. Strauss.

In the past decade, several books have explored the multiple meanings of Tijuana as a borderland city, a fascinating urban space that epitomizes social hierarchies operating in close proximity to a porous contact zone: the border between Mexico and the United States of America. In Yeh's account, we clearly observe that only a very small slice of Tijuana's middle class is granted the tenuous privilege of inclusion: to have their voices heard in public debates that may influence state policy. In Tijuana, MORENA, a six-year-old leftist political party that sought to create a more egalitarian society by organizing horizontally and from below, captured a majority in the 2018 presidential election and the gubernatorial election the following year. [Extracted from the article]

Reviews the book "Circulation in Third World Countries," by R. Mansell Prothero and Murray Chapman.

The article reviews the book "Advancing with the Army: Medicine, the Professions, and Social Mobility in the British Isles, 1790-1850," by Marcus Ackroyd, Laurence Brockliss, Michael Moss, Kate Retford, and John Stevenson.

This review engages with Jennifer Lee and Min Zhou’sThe Asian American Achievement Paradoxto consider how ethnic culture matters for social mobility among the immigrant second generation. It describes the strengths and contributions of the book, connects it to broader debates on culture, poverty, and mobility, and draws on my own research on the second generation in New York City. It highlights three additional cultural mechanisms that underlie the Chinese (or Asian) second-generation advantage: social class heterogeneity in the co-ethnic community, intergenerational support in the immigrant family, and the belief in achievements as redemption for parental sacrifice. While pointing out the similarities and differences between Los Angeles and New York, it also suggests possible applications of these cultural mechanisms in explaining second-generation achievements. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The mass movement of migrant workers from rural to urban destinations is a natural consequence of globalization. It has exerted a major influence on economic growth, and the social interaction and lives of the individuals involved. This review focuses on such rural–urban migration with the aim of identifying its impact on the social lives and class relations of the migrants. It will examine the arguments made by Howard French concerning migrant workers in sub-Saharan Africa and a series of accounts made by internal migrant workers in China by Lü Guoguang. We will also discuss the variable impact of such migrants on social stratification analysed by Li Qiang and the trajectory of ethnic minority populations under the Western Development strategy in China that is the focus of Ma Rong's work. The review will conclude by assessing the contemporary conditions and probable future prospects of millions of Chinese migrant workers, and what needs to be done to escape the ‘migrant dilemma'. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Kleinman details the tremendous effort West African migrants undertake to develop useful relationships across the railway station's diverse assemblage of passengers, workers, and the police. I Adventure Capital i is a study of West African migrants in Paris. Animating the analysis is the idiom of "adventurer", which West African migrants used to conceptualize their migration as a practice of furthering their mobility, socially as much as physically, by building out of their social networks. [Extracted from the article]

Whereas his chapter concentrates on the period the film plays in, Ben Winsworth situates the movie in the era the film was actually shot. When I The New York Times i reviewed the Who's rock opera Quadrophenia in 1979, the newspaper was impressed by the directors' concern with 'the general experience of adolescents [and] the particular groups of people' the movie dealt with: The Mods. As the film was shot in the 1970s and shaped nostalgia in times of cultural and economic stagnation, the movie links different periods to each other. [Extracted from the article]

Reviews the book "Social Mobility and Social Structure," edited by Ronald L. Breiger.

Reviews the book "Social Mobility and Social Structure," by Bogdan Mach and Wlodzimierz Wesolowski.

Reviews the book "Ancient China in Transition: An Analysis of Social Mobility, 722-222 B.C.," by Cho-Yun Hsu.

Reviews the book "Social Mobility and Controlled Fertility," by H.Y. Tien

Shamus Khan's Privilege and Christine Walley's Exit Zero are autobiographically grounded analyses of social class in the United States. Drawing on memory, personal documents, the telling ethnographic incident, and relevant social theory, each brings to light some of the ways that current neoliberal socioeconomic policies constrict people's life chances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article reviews the book "Making Our Way Through the World: Human Reflexivity and Social Mobility" by Margaret S. Archer.

Reviews two books on economic inequality. "Economic Inequality in Japan," by Toshiaki Tachibanaki and "The Inequality of Opportunity in Contemporary Japan," by Toshiki Sato.

The article reviews the book "On Sociology: Numbers, Narratives, and the Integration of Research and Theory," by John H. Goldthorpe.

A review of the book "Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis," by Robert D. Putnam, is presented.

The article reviews the book "Upward Dreams, Downward Mobility: The Economic Decline of the American Middle Class," by Frederick R. Strobel.

Reviews the book "Men in a Developing Society: Geographic and Social Mobility in Monterrey, Mexico," reviewed by George C. Myers.

The article presents American vision of Canadian Politics through two books "Continental Divide: The Values and Institutions of the United States and Canada," by Seymour M. Lipset and "The Origins of Canadian Politics: A Comparative Approach," by Gordon T. Stewart. Loyalists immigration to Canada gave the country its organizing principle. The U.S. has the most restrictive set of welfare provisions and the weakest labor movement in the industrial world. Electoral support for socialist politics is practically nonexistent. Social mobility through educational achievement, universalism in social relations, disrespect for authority and sectarian religious fervor are particularly strong. In Canada, by contrast, a vigorous labor movement, a socialist party with a considerable following, more particularism in social relations, and much less religious evangelism. Certainly, the two states have evolved Origins of Canadian Politics provides an interesting and even engaging, though perhaps not entirely convincing, reconstruction of a culturalist understanding of political developments in the northern country.

Reviews the book "La mobilitá sociale in Emilia-Romagna," by Marzio Barbagli, Vittorio Capecchi, and Antonio Cobalti.

Reviews the book "Following in Father's Footsteps: Social Mobility in Ireland," by Michael Hout.

Reviews the book "Social Mobility In Industrial Society," by Seymour Lipset and Reinhard Bendix.

Reviews the book "Social and Cultural Mobility."

Reviews the book "Social Mobility in Britain," edited by D. V. Glass.

The article reviews the book "The Making of Pro-Life Activists: How Social Mobilization Works," by Ziad W. Munson.