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| Just what is "social mobility?" | |
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| Topic Started: Dec 6 2017, 12:20 PM (220 Views) | |
| papasmurf | Dec 6 2017, 12:20 PM Post #1 |
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Social Mobility is a term being bandied about a lot recently. I suspect it means different things to different people. I am not certain what it means or why it is supposed to be a good thing. |
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| Alberich | Dec 6 2017, 01:20 PM Post #2 |
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Keeping it simple, it's the ability to move up relative to ones social standing; to improve ones lot in life, and the absence of barriers designed to prevent said upward mobility. For example, the ability of working class youth to benefit from a grammar school education. And as an example of the barriers referred to above, the destruction of said grammar schools. |
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| papasmurf | Dec 6 2017, 06:42 PM Post #3 |
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I still get the impression the sub-text is class mobility. |
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| johnofgwent | Dec 6 2017, 07:08 PM Post #4 |
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It .. It is GREEN !!
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https://www.gov.uk/government/policies/social-mobility The government's own regulator defines it as the measure of how easy or not it is for someone of a "disadvantaged background to get on in life" I'd say "why don't you ask a commisioner" but they all resigned last week in a fit of pique |
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| Deleted User | Dec 6 2017, 09:24 PM Post #5 |
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Social mobility has nothing to do with the concept of class.There never was a subtext...jeez🙄 |
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| Rich | Dec 6 2017, 09:54 PM Post #6 |
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But that's what get's me, their contracts ended last July, how can you resign from a job you do not have? |
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| papasmurf | Dec 7 2017, 08:23 AM Post #7 |
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That is not relevant to this thread. |
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