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Title: |
Social Mobility in Post-war Hong Kong |
| Sub-title: |
Getting Ahead |
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| By (author): |
Yi-Lee Wong |
| ISBN10-13: |
1612096751 : 9781612096759 |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Size: |
180x260mm |
| Pages: |
236 |
| Weight: |
.596 Kg. |
| Published: |
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US) - February 2012 |
| List Price: |
203.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 2 |
| Subjects: |
Social issues & processes |
| This book is the first volume of a qualitative study of social mobility over three generations in post-war Hong Kong. The family histories and work-life histories of eighty-nine respondents who were middle-aged middle-class parents -- teachers, managers, and their spouses -- were collected between 1996 and 1997. This book examines the processes of social mobility in order to elucidate how social mobility is generated at the micro level and it investigates the consequences of social mobility with a view to illuminating how the system of social stratification could be reproduced or changed over generations. |
| Table of Contents: |
| Prologue: My Mobility Experience & Aspiration to the Hong Kong Dream; Social Mobility: Processes & Consequences; Post-war Hong Kong: Structured Opportunities & Constraints; Family Strategies for Education: From Class Origin to First Job; Family Strategies for Career: From First Job to Current Class; Career Strategies of Respondents & their Siblings: Entry & Advancement; Career Strategies of Respondents: A Comparison of Teachers & Managers; Inequality within the Family; Summary of Part One: Towards an Explanatory Model for Social Mobility; Index. |
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