The Role of Socioeconomic Status in Subjective Social Mobility andSocial Mobility Beliefs: Evidence from Urban China
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- Abstract
- Socioeconomic status (SES) is regarded as a key factor influencing people’s thinking about themselves and the world around them. This paper takes an interdisciplinary perspective borrowing elements from sociology and psychology to investigate how SES is associated with subjective social mobility and social mobility beliefs for people in urban China. The dialogue between the two disciplines provides a macroscopic picture of subjective social mobility patterns and a glimpse of potential cognitive processes behind it. By analyzing existing data collected through the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) 2010 (Study 1) and original survey data of 309 Chinese adults (Study 2), we find that higher-SES individuals not only subjectively perceive more social mobility than lower-SES individuals, but also hold more positive general beliefs towards social mobility as a whole. Furthermore, we find that income is the strongest predictor of social mobility beliefs, compared to education and occupation.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Date created | August 2020 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Li, Yuman |
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| Author | Xu, Shang |
Subjects
| Subject | Subjective social mobility |
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| Subject | Social mobility beliefs |
| Subject | Socioeconomic status (SES) |
| Subject | Urban China |
| Subject | Stanford Graduate School of Education International Comparative Education |
| Genre | Thesis |
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| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/yp772dw8199 |
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Graduate School of Education International Comparative Education Master's Monographs
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