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  2. Sociology of education - Wikipedia

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    The internal relation between roles, distinct from the individual people who fill them and whom they casually affect. The relation between teacher and student is closely internal because each could not exist without each other. Functionalists view education as one of the more important social institutions in society.

  3. Social mobility - Wikipedia

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    Social mobility can also be influenced by differences that exist within education. The contribution of education to social mobility often gets neglected in social mobility research, although it really has the potential to transform the relationship between people's social origins and destinations. [53]

  4. Great Gatsby Curve - Wikipedia

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    The "Great Gatsby Curve" is the term given to the positive empirical relationship between cross-sectional income inequality and persistence of income across generations. [1] The scatter plot shows a correlation between income inequality in a country and intergenerational income mobility (the potential for its citizens to achieve upward mobility).

  5. Pierre Bourdieu - Wikipedia

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    Pierre Bourdieu was born in Denguin (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), in southern France, to a postal worker and his wife.The household spoke Béarnese, a Gascon dialect. In 1962, Bourdieu married Marie-Claire Brizard, and the couple would go on to have three sons, Jérôme, Emmanuel, and Laurent.

  6. Social class - Wikipedia

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    These class relations are reproduced through time. In Marxist theory, the class structure of the capitalist mode of production is characterized by the conflict between two main classes: the bourgeoisie, the capitalists who own the means of production and the much larger proletariat (or "working class") who must sell their own labour power (wage ...

  7. Global Social Mobility Index - Wikipedia

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    Knowing that social mobility is a measure of income inequality, Suriyanrattakorn and Chang, researchers at Udon Thani Rajabjat University and National Chung Hsing University respectively, have found a relationship between the Global Social Mobility Index and life satisfaction measured by subjective well-being. [8]

  8. Horizontal mobility - Wikipedia

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    The Power Elite is a book published in 1956 by the American sociologist C. Wright Mills. [13] In this book, Mills dealt with the horizontal mobility of the relationship between the political, military and economic elites. Mills has written that horizontal mobility moves within and between three institutional structures. [14]

  9. Academic mobility - Wikipedia

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    The Lausanne campus. Switzerland is the country with the world's highest proportion of foreign researchers. [1]Academic mobility refers to students, teachers and researchers in higher education moving to another institution inside or outside of their own country to study or teach for a limited time.