Stature, upward social mobility and the nature of statural differences between social classes

1992 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 589-593 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Bielicki ◽  
H. Waliszko
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
Upward Social Mobility

Students, Workers, and Social Change: The Limits of Czech Stalinism

Slavic Review ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 307-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Connelly
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Support ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Elite Status ◽  
Working Class Students ◽  
Upward Social Mobility

Only a few years after the defeat of Nazi Germany, communists throughout eastern Europe began constructing new societies according to models imported from the Soviet Union. One of the most important tasks facing them in this enterprise was to establish firm bases of social support. For this, the Soviet model seemed straightforward: communists had to destroy the power of the old elites and recruit new elites from underprivileged social strata. In the 1920s the Bolsheviks had attempted to achieve these goals through higher education. By using affirmative action in student admissions and setting up worker preparation courses—the rabfaky—they broke the ability of the former upper classes to bequeath status and rapidly increased the numbers of workers and peasants among university students. Between 1927-28 and 1932-33 the number of working-class students doubled to half of all students, while the total number of students more than doubled. Issues of ideology aside, the logic of this transformation was simple: underprivileged social classes were likely to reward communists with loyalty in exchange for upward social mobility. The middle and upper classes, on the other hand, had considered it their prerogative to aspire to elite status. Their attachment to communism would always seem suspect, because in the best of cases it was based upon ideological commitment alone.

scholarly journals Effects of social mobility from childhood to adolescence on BMI

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 814-821 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Paula Muraro ◽  
Regina Maria Veras Gonçalves-Silva ◽  
Márcia Gonçalves Ferreira ◽  
Rosely Sichieri
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
Wealth Index ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Mixed Effects ◽  
Rate Of Change ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
Mixed Effects Models ◽  
Linear Mixed Effects Models ◽  
Linear Mixed Effects ◽  
Upward Social Mobility

AbstractObjectiveLittle is known about the contribution of childhood socio-economic position (SEP) and social mobility to weight change. The present study evaluated the effect of family SEP during the pre-school years and social mobility on BMI between birth and adolescence.DesignLongitudinal. The SEP of each child’s family was classified according to an asset-based wealth index as low, medium or high. Four different categories of childhood–adolescence SEP groups were created in order to examine social mobility: low–medium/high, medium–medium, medium–high and high–high/medium. For each of these categories, BMI was tracked from birth to adolescence. Linear mixed-effects models were used to analyse the data.SettingCuiabá–MT, Brazil.SubjectsA population-based cohort of children born between 1994 and 1999 was assessed between 1999 and 2000, and again between 2009 and 2011.ResultsA total of 1716 adolescents were followed from childhood to adolescence (71·4 % of baseline). The prevalence of overweight/obesity was 20·4 % in childhood and 27·7 % in adolescence. A higher SEP in childhood was associated with a greater prevalence of overweight in adolescence. Expressive upward social mobility occurred, mainly in the lowest SEP group. There was a greater rate of change in BMI between birth and adolescence among children with a higher SEP in childhood and children who remained in the higher SEP from childhood to adolescence.ConclusionIndividuals from a higher SEP in childhood and those who remained in the higher social classes showed greater rate of change in BMI. Thus, initial SEP was the major determinant of changes in BMI.

Upward social mobility in China: Do cities and neighbourhoods matter?

2018 ◽  
Vol 82 ◽  
pp. 94-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongsheng Chen ◽  
Xingping Wang ◽  
Guo Chen ◽  
Zhigang Li
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
Upward Social Mobility

Producing communities and commodities: Safaricom and commercial nationalism in Kenya

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Tuwei ◽  
Melissa Tully
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Mobile Services ◽  
Economic Success ◽  
Economic Growth And Development ◽  
National Sentiment ◽  
Upward Social Mobility ◽  
The Government

This research analyses Safaricom, one of the most established mobile operators in Kenya. Alongside the provision of mobile services, Safaricom has closely engaged with the government of Kenya, even getting involved in the nation’s politics. This study examines Safaricom’s advertisements from 2010-2014 to explore its use of national sentiment in its marketing. We argue that the ads reflect a commitment to promoting the country and its products through discourses of ‘commercial nationalism’, which present Safaricom as a driver of economic growth and development in Kenya. These discourses link Kenyan identity and distinctiveness to consumerism, commercial and economic success, profit and upward social mobility.

scholarly journals ‘We’ll Help Ourselves, but What’s in It for Us?’ Conflict, Development and Social Mobility among Roma in Romania

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 365-378
Author(s):  
Ana Ivasiuc
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Strategic Group ◽  
Related Development ◽  
Upward Social Mobility ◽  
The Cost

AbstractRoma-related development and policy discourse often represents the Roma development ‘subjects’ as disempowered victims. Against the pervasiveness of such narratives, a close look at the local level conflicts arising during the implementation of a World Bank development project in destitute Roma communities from Romania lays bare the strategies of unassisted social mobility in which a group of Roma engage. Not large or well-defined enough to be constituted into a real ‘class’ in sociological terms, this strategic group is made up of Roma civil servants (mediators, local experts, Romani language teachers) who negotiate their engagement in development projects on their own terms and use the material and immaterial resources that projects offer to enact their own upward social mobility. Often, though, this comes at the cost of a growing socio-economic gap between themselves and the most destitute parts of Roma communities, which complicates their involvement in development projects. The article underlines the necessity of taking into account both the strategies of unassisted social mobility of Roma development brokers, and the internal power imbalances that the development apparatus inevitably ends up producing in Roma communities.

Protestantism and the Latin American Middle Class

1971 ◽  
Vol os-18 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-28
Author(s):  
Charles F. Denton
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Economic Reform ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Upward Social Mobility ◽  
The Church ◽  
Positive Force

The author feels that the development of a middle class in Latin America has been fostered by the effects of Protestant evangelism among the lower classes, which has spurred upward social mobility. But instead of becoming a positive force for social and economic reform, this middle class has become as reactionary as the small traditional upper class. This, together with the inability of most Protestant pastors to minister effectively to middle class persons and intellectuals, is a serious problem for the church in Latin America.

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