I am looking for articles or any other resources on issues related to social class mobility and how issues of exclusion due to group membership- race, gender, caste, religion etc might impact this mobility.
Thank you!!
A Research Agenda for the Black Middle Class: Work Stress, Survival Strategies, and Mental Health
http://www.jstor.org/stable/1519789?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Social Networks and Support: A Comparison of African Americans, Asian Americans, Caucasians, and Hispanics
http://www.jstor.org/stable/41603567?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Migration, gender conformity, and social mobility among Puerto Rican sexual minorities
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1525/srsp.2009.6.3.34
A quick question. Are you interested in US social mobility or social mobility more broadly? I ask because you mention caste as one of the factors you would like to explore.
I can't help you with the US material but I can recommend Dr Chan's work on social mobility - see http://users.ox.ac.uk/~sfos0006/.
If you are specifically interested in caste issues you might want to locate such any such discussion in the changes in cultural over time. Milton Singer's book When a Great Tradition Modernizes is a dated but useful starting point.
I think the Bourdieu reading is essential in this regard:
Bourdieu, P. (1995) Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Bourdieu, P. and L. Wacquant (1992) Réponses. Paris: Editions du Seuil.
Fowler, B. (1997) Pierre Bourdieu and Cultural Theory: Critical Investigations. London: Sage.
Menger, P.-M. (2002) Le Paradoxe du musicien: le compositeur, le mlomane et l’état dans la société contemporaine. Paris: Harmattan.
Thornton, S. (1996) Club Cultures: Music, Media and Subcultural Capital. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press.
David- I am interested in looking at social mobility more broadly- rather than just U.S centric. Thank you for all the resources!
This is a very insightful study by a Cambridge prof. who was one of eight children of a coal miner in the UK.
Diane Reay. Miseducation: Inequality, Education and the Working Classes (21st Century Standpoints) 2017
GUARDIAN (newspaper) interview:
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/nov/21/english-class-system-shaped-in-schools
I agree Bourdieu is important but if you want to use him to discuss social class and mobility you really need to read understand 'habitus' and how it can be used to establish or manipulate social position. Key readings are: "Outline of a Theory of Practice" (1977) (an astonishing omission for the wikipedia entry on Bourdieu) and "Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste (1979)"
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