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This article provides a theoretical discussion on the possibilities of conjunction of gender analysis and class analysis for the sociological study of mobility and social reproduction. Reviewing a tradition that has resulted in the separation of those fields and the lack of consideration of gender as a relevant factor in classical studies of social mobility, it presents the possibilities for a conceptual net capable of supporting empirical studies that articulate gender and social origin as explanatory sources of social inequality. That, moreover, has been fuelled by the proliferation in recent decades in Europe and Latin America of researches on mobility that, when including both men and women, convey that conclusions about social reproduction become more complex. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The essay tries to detect (and exhibit) some promising and progressive aspects which were embodied in the so-called premodern order and in the time previous to the First World War. Among those factors we can mention a solid family structure, the existence of strong individualities with firm conceptions about the everyday sphere of ethics and a high culture, which was still very distant from the current and extreme relativism of values. That time of classical liberalism was very different in comparison with the current "volatile capitalism", which is characterized by self referential narcissism and technocratic tendencies. A contribution to the positive aspects of the world of yesterday was done by an aristocracy (with some premodern traits), which acknowledged the limits fixed upon us by the natural environment and human deficiencies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]