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From newcomers to middle class: the social and spatial mobility of new urban migrants / Song, Yu-Ling   Journal Article
Song, Yu-Ling Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract is article studies the relationship between social and spatial mobility of new urban migrants and residents. e objective is to present the inuences of the household registration system on the social mobility of China’s new urban migrants through a comparison of the dierences and similarities between these two groups. Two data sets are adopted in this article: the Blue Book of Youth Nos. 1 and 2 and in-depth interviews conducted during the summers of 2009, 2010, and 2011. ematic analysis was employed to understand their social mobility aer spatial mobility. Results show that new urban migrants are relatively vulnerable. While society generally expects them to assimilate rather than achieve upward social mobility, the hukou system limits their access to social welfare and security. Meanwhile, new urban residents who have access to advantages consider themselves lower-middle class in terms of consumption, and maintain certain flexibility to further establish their social and economic status. In this article, “opportunity” is a significant theme. New urban residents strive to leverage their urban resident status to create individual wealth.
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Grammar schools, a policy of social mobility and selection—why? / Ware, Alan   Journal Article
Ware, Alan Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract Initially, four plausible reasons for introducing selection in secondary education are examined, three of which are irrelevant to contemporary debates about expanding grammar-school education. These are: first, to ration education in less advanced economies; second, to increase the supply of skilled labour within an expanded national elite; third, as part of a ‘segmented’ system of education. A fourth—increasing upward social mobility—is open to two objections: first, the May government's proposals are so limited as to have little likely impact on mobility and, second, upward mobility in the twentieth century was possible only because of structural change in the British labour market, and that will probably not continue in this century. Finally, it is argued that attempts to select the ‘best’ in any activity or skill are necessarily highly imperfect, and are far less accurate than testing who does and does not meet some minimum level of competence.
Key Words Testing  Meritocracy  Competence  Selection  Social Mobality  Grammar Schools 
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