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Stepping into the Elite: Trajectories of Social Achievement in India, France, and the United States

Autor Jules Naudet Traducere de Renuka George
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 3 oct 2018
This book is the English translation of the French title, Entrer dans l'élite: parcours de réussite en France, en Inde et aux Etats-Unis. In this book, the author highlights the particular way in which upwardly mobile people in India, France and the United States-countries embodying three distinct stratification systems-make sense of their experience of shifting from one social class to another. Given that people draw upon particular cultural tools or repertoires to analyze their world and situate themselves in it, the author identifies the extent to which narratives of 'success' varies from one country to another. He argues that for any study on social mobility, it is important to take into account national contexts along with associated levels of analysis. In order to account satisfactorily for the way mobility is experienced, the author argues, identifying national repertoires of evaluation and institutional specificities is a decisive, yet insufficient step. Achievement narratives, the author concludes, are the result of a composite influence of the cultural repertoires and the dominant ideologies present in one's immediate context.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199487240
ISBN-10: 0199487243
Pagini: 344
Ilustrații: Nil
Dimensiuni: 147 x 221 x 31 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, India

Recenzii

In short, Stepping into the Elite is a fascinating book that provides key contributions to sociological understandings of class stratification and mobility in an international perspective. It is also, at its core, a profound work of cultural sociology that sheds critical insights into how culture shapes our perceptions of and experiences within systems of social inequality.

Notă biografică

Jules Naudet is an alumnus of Sciences Po Paris and of the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales and holds a doctorate in Sociology. His doctoral research focused on a comparative analysis of the experience of upward social mobility in France, India, and the United-States. He carried out his postdoctoral research at the Centre Maurice Halbwachs (EHESS/ENS/CNRS), working on the representation of poverty by inhabitants of upper-class neighborhoods in Paris, Delhi, and São-Paulo. He was head of the Political and Society division of the CSH (New Delhi) from 2012 to 2016 and is currently research fellow at CNRS, France