Class Entrenchment and Social Mobility: Infinite Life Reading List 8
Is equality at birth only a dream?
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Yan Fei
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Can People Still Move between Social Classes?
Sociologist Yan Fei draws on more than ten classic books and individual lives shaped by education, privilege, capital, and family background. Comparisons with Europe and North America help expose the forces that drive mobility and entrenchment in China.
Sociological imagination can clarify debates about elite schools, examination success, overcompetition, and “lying flat”—while helping each person recognize possibilities within an unequal world. Audio is in Chinese.