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Despite becoming a big issue in public debate, social mobility is one of the most misunderstood processes of our time. In this accessible and engaging text, Geoff Payne, one of Britain’s leading mobility analysts, presents up-to-date sociological research evidence to demonstrate how our politicians have not grasped the ways in which mobility works. The new social mobility argues for considering a wider range of dimensions of mobility and life chances, notably the workings of the labour market, to assess more accurately the causes and consequences of mobility as social and political processes. Bringing together a range of literature and research, it covers key themes of mobility analysis, and offers a critical and original approach to social mobility. This important book will challenge the well-established opinions of politicians, pressure groups, the press, academics and the public; it is also sufficiently comprehensive to be suitable for teaching and of interest to a broad academic audience.
Introduction This article seeks to acknowledge how disabled people 2 navigate and counter how society makes them feel about their difference. To this end, I introduce two converse yet complementary feeling strategies promoted in Disability Studies: cripping and reclaiming . Cripping invites us to feel proud about disability, whereas reclaiming acknowledges the hurtful feelings that, at times, belong to the disability experience. The following sections will elaborate on what those two feeling strategies do, the utopian hopes attached to them, their major
89 Families, Relationships and Societies • vol 8 • no 1 • 89–104 • © Policy Press 2019 Print ISSN 2046 7435 • Online ISSN 2046 7443 • https://doi.org/10.1332/096278917X15015139344438 Accepted for publication 22 July 2017 • First published online 02 August 2017 article Comparative life experiences: young adult siblings with and without disabilities’ different understandings of their respective life experiences during young adulthood Ariella Meltzer, a.meltzer@unsw.edu.au University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Research shows that siblings of people
gender, ethnicity, age, disability or regional location make much difference to the life chances of British people. The diversity of the population and their disparate employment prospects receive scant attention. The idea of a complex and segmented labour market, in which a range of discriminatory 71 recruitment practices combine with culturally reproduced variations in types of educational credentials to produce outcomes of marked dissimilarity, is sidelined. Relying on official documents While it is reasonable to use the official documents to demonstrate the
the supposed general distribution of ability. Sociologists normally treat ability as culturally defined rather than innate, so the potential to be described as having ‘ability’ is initially distributed more or less randomly across the population. However, the subsequent differential acquisition of socially valued characteristics in later life is then attributed to environmental forces that both progressively and immediately from birth (or indeed in utero) redefine individuals’ abilities and disabilities. Environmental social factors in early life such as
, pain medication or to throw up, or all of the above. But why was a five-year-old doing this? Perhaps this is partly explained by the social aspects surrounding disability in Mexico. In this country, the care of people with disabilities is characterised by inequalities. Three disability models can be located. First, the charity model identifies disabilities with imperfections, impurities, God’s rage and the expiation of sins. This model has, on the one hand, the Christian discourse of compassion and, on the other, exclusion and punishment as people with
to childhood disability and mental health in South Africa, with an emphasis on developing psychosocial understandings of physical disability, mental health, childcare, poverty, service learning and the interrelationships between each of these. Kretchmar ( 2001 : 5) describes service learning as follows: ‘Fundamentally different from volunteer work, service learning emphasizes reciprocity by creating a learning opportunity for students while also serving the needs of a community group or agency. Both elements—service and learning—are highlighted.’ The course focuses
a ; 2013b ), particularly in relation to how this is useful within the context of disability and chronic illness ( Richards, 2008 ; Nowakowski, 2016a ; 2016b ), and the importance of relationships and how the intimate pedagogy explored within this special issue offers students and teaching staff a space for much-needed care, solidarity and connection. The narratives offered have been created by drawing on memory and in conversations with my mum whilst recounting and writing about our adventures in mothering, daughtering and intensive caring. Intensive
Emotions, the Thematic Network on Disability (RETEDIS) of the University of the Republic, and the Study Group on Disability (GEDIS), which covers several university centres in the country. A number of works from various disciplinary perspectives have been published on the subject of disability and the disciplining of bodies through psychotropic drugs: Adriana Cristóforo and Mañuel Muniz, and Javier Romano Silva (University of the Republic - Uruguay ) from the field of psychology; and especially Maria Noe Míguez University of the Republic, from the field of social
deployed in the service of pedagogic rather than therapeutic aims. The first three articles offer biographical experiences that share some commonalities. The theme of disabilities features in all three, although experienced from different positions: sibling, daughter and protagonist. In two of these there is an aspect of becoming a parental child when a family member is disabled and of experiencing ‘courtesy’ stigma. The third speaks to the particular ways by which mother and child become a unit of survival in a childhood mostly spent in hospital settings. What emerges
