This important new book is a comparative study of social mobility based on qualitative interviews with middle-class parents in America and Britain. It addresses the key issue in stratification ...research, namely, the stability of class relations and middle-class reproduction. Drawing on interviewee accounts of how parents mobilised economic, cultural and social resources to help them into professional careers, it then considers how the interviewees, as parents, seek to increase their children's chances of educational success and occupational advancement. Middle-class parents may try to secure their children's social position but it is not an easy or straightforward affair. With the decline of the quality of state education and increased job insecurity in the labour market since the 1970s and 1980s, the reproduction of advantage is more difficult than in the affluent decades of the 1950s and 1960s. The implications for public policy, especially public investment in higher education, are considered.
Regelmäßige Staus und verkehrsbedingte Umweltbelastungen sind ein zunehmendes Problem in vielen Großstädten. Der Verzicht auf den privaten PKW scheint hier ein möglicher Ausweg zu sein. Doch dazu ...müssen ausreichende Alternativen angeboten werden. Hier bietet die Shared Mobility einen wichtigen neuen Baustein. Systeme wie Bikesharing und Carsharing erweitern das Mobilitätsangebot und erleichtern den Verzicht auf privaten Fahrzeugbesitz.
Using new cross-country survey and experimental data, we investigate how beliefs about intergenerational mobility affect preferences for redistribution in France, Italy, Sweden, the United Kingdom, ...and the United States. Americans are more optimistic than Europeans about social mobility. Our randomized treatment shows pessimistic information about mobility and increases support for redistribution, mostly for “equality of opportunity” policies. We find strong political polarization. Left-wing respondents are more pessimistic about mobility: their preferences for redistribution are correlated with their mobility perceptions; and they support more redistribution after seeing pessimistic information. None of this is true for right-wing respondents, possibly because they see the government as a “problem” and not as the “solution.”
We estimate spatially disaggregated measures of intergenerational mobility in Chile through an administrative dataset linking children's and their parents' earnings from the formal private labour ...sector. We report remarkable heterogeneity as we find higher and lower upward mobility in mining and agricultural regions, respectively, corroborating previous findings by Connolly et al. in 2019 with the distinction that Chile is a unitary state, implying that factors other than institutional differences shape mobility.
This book gathers contributions to the EU-funded Horizon 2020 project INDIMO (Inclusive Digital Mobility Solutions), its sister projects DIGNITY (Digital Transport in and for Society) and TRIPS ...(Transport Innovation for Persons with Disabilities Needs Satisfaction), which have been focusing on making transport systems inclusive and accessible for all. Digitalization has enabled the emergence and proliferation of novel, ‘disruptive’ transport and delivery services. These services are often exclusively only available through digital channels such as a smartphone app or website. Yet a substantial segment of the population is at risk of being excluded from these services for a variety of reasons. Therefore, it is strongly necessary to integrate inclusivity and accessibility into the design and operation of mobility services. This book aims at discussing cases of and reasons for digital exclusion in transport. It also investigates the role of participatory and user-centric planning and design methods in making digital mobility more inclusive and accessible. Further, it discusses tools and technologies that could help policy makers to develop digital mobility as a more inclusive and accessible service. This is an open access book.
•The experiential qualities of study places overshadow institutional reputation.•Instead of institutional rankings, prestige is compared between distinctive places.•Lifestyle and place are used as ...alternative markers to reconfigure distinction.•Mobility capital serves as symbolic capital in students’ lifecourse aspirations.•Cosmopolitan qualities of place provide students with distinction.
Moving beyond the ‘world-class’ institutional model of international student mobility, this paper examines alternative narratives of distinction relating to place of study. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with international students at universities in the UK, Austria and Latvia, we illustrate how students inside and outside mainstream reputable higher education institutions narrate and reconfigure markers of distinction to validate their international mobility and location of study, in part to compete with peers at other (more prestigious) institutions. We demonstrate the importance of lifestyle and experiential places within a global differentiated higher education landscape and argue that many students engage in comparative narratives of place of study to authorise the symbolic capital associated with international education. The findings also consider how experiential places and mobility capital are used for distinction not only during educational mobility but within post-study aspirations.
Ukraine’s National Strategy for Education Development aims to align its education system with global standards and sustainable development goals. One of the key objectives is to integrate higher ...education with European norms, offer diverse educational models, and meet information and communication needs. The European Commission supports this integration process by fostering initiatives such as the Bologna process, mobility, and cooperation with programs like Erasmus+. Mobility, enabled by information and communication technologies, is essential for building the European educational and scientific space. This paper explores the different aspects of mobility, such as geographic, social, professional, academic, learning, software, hardware, and technological mobility. It investigates how they relate to each other within socio-pedagogical and technical systems, highlighting their importance for the information society. Using historical and contemporary perspectives, the paper develops a holistic model of mobility in the information society. Future research directions include the dynamic evolution of mobility within higher education systems, its sociocultural implications, and its intersection with technological innovations and state-political transformations. Furthermore, the phenomenon of mobility in technological and pedagogical systems, driven by the spread of mobile information and communication technologies, deserves more attention.
Over the past few years, structures for lossless ion manipulations (SLIM) have used traveling waves (TWs) to move ions over long serpentine paths that can be further lengthened by routing the ions ...through multiple passages of the same path. Such SLIM "multipass" separations provide unprecedentedly high ion mobility resolving powers but are ultimately limited in their ion mobility range because of the range of mobilities spanned in a single pass; that is, higher mobility ions ultimately "overtake" and "lap" lower mobility ions that have experienced fewer passes, convoluting their arrival time distribution at the detector. To achieve ultrahigh resolution separations over broader mobility ranges, we have developed a new multilevel SLIM possessing multiple stacked serpentine paths. Ions are transferred between SLIM levels through apertures (or ion escalators) in the SLIM surfaces. The initial multilevel SLIM module incorporates four levels and three interlevel ion escalator passages, providing a total path length of 43.2 m. Using the full path length and helium buffer gas, high resolution separations were achieved for Agilent tuning mixture phosphazene ions over a broad mobility range (
≈ 3.0 to 1.2 cm
/(V*s)). High sensitivity was achieved using "in-SLIM" ion accumulation over an extended trapping region of the first SLIM level. High transmission efficiency of ions over a broad mobility range (e.g.,
≈ 3.0 to 1.67 cm
/(V*s)) was achieved, with transmission efficiency rolling off for the lower mobility ions (e.g.,
≈ 1.2 cm
/(V*s)). Resolving powers of up to ∼560 were achieved using all four ion levels to separate reverse peptides (SDGRG
and GRGDS
). A complex mixture of phosphopeptides showed similar coverage could be achieved using one or all four SLIM levels, and doubly charged phosphosite isomers not significantly separated using one SLIM level were well resolved when four levels were used. The new multilevel SLIM technology thus enables wider mobility range ultrahigh-resolution ion mobility separations and expands on the ability of SLIM to obtain improved separations of complex mixtures with high sensitivity.
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