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'Of course we do': inequality, the family and the spell of social mobility

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Soundings: a journal of politics and culture, Issue: 64, Pages: 117 - 127

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Social mobility has been announced as a goal by most recent incoming prime ministers, including Theresa May, whose espousal of grammar schools is supposed to promote mobility. Social immobility – sometimes known as ‘class fate’ – is indeed a problem, but nothing will change until there is a recognit...

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Published in: Soundings: a journal of politics and culture
ISSN: 1362 6620
Published: 2016
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