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SUMMARY:Rethinking Social Mobility
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DESCRIPTION:Reflecting concerns that the post-war mobility boom has been 
 put into reverse\, ‘the problem of social mobility’ has come to the fore
  in public policy discourse in the UK over the last decade and shows no 
 sign of abating. Media post-mortems on the Labour Party’s electoral fail
 ure in the recent General Election were quick to link this to its inabil
 ity to match the Conservatives as a party of ‘aspiration’\, testifying t
 o the fact that the notion of stalled mobility has become both a powerfu
 l and performative trope in the popular imagination.\n \nAcademics\, mea
 nwhile\, have largely operated at one step removed from the mobility deb
 ate. Relying on one-dimensional\, macro-level data from sample surveys\,
  they have produced what appear to be conflicting findings\, born out of
  disagreements about what comprises social mobility and how to measure i
 t.\n \nAgainst such a backdrop - which finds strong echoes in other West
 ern nations - this symposium starts from the proposition that the study 
 of social mobility has reached an impasse and is in need of renewal. The
  tools\, approaches and indicators developed by mid twentieth-century so
 cial science remain powerful for framing and illuminating certain types 
 of question about mobility. Yet they have also closed down or sidelined 
 avenues of enquiry that can reflect its complex and changing role in the
  formation of contemporary social relations\, and\, in particular\, as a
  dynamic of stark and widening inequalities.\n \nIn considering what an 
 agenda for social mobility studies in a new age of inequality might look
  like\, this meeting will consider a range of issues bearing on the way 
 mobility is conceptualised and understood. These include the relationshi
 p between culture\, economics\, occupation and class as competing domain
 s of mobility\; intra- and multigenerational processes of mobility\; the
  subjectivities and affects of mobility\; questions of gender\, educatio
 n and elites\; the mobilization of new data and mixed methods\; and dime
 nsions of change as represented in the differences of approach and empha
 sis between historians and social scientists of mobility. \n \nSpeakers 
 include:\n \n\, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center on Pov
 erty and Inequality\, Stanford University\n \nMike Savage\, Professor of
  Sociology and Co-Director of the International Inequalities Institute\,
  London School of Economics\n \nSelina Todd\, Lecturer in Modern British
  History and Vice-Principal\, St Hilda’s College\, Oxford
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:The People's History Museum\, Left Bank\, Spinningfields\, Manch
 ester\, M3 3ER
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