Stepping Into the Elite

Trajectories of Social Achievement in India, France, and the United States
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-0-19-948724-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

This book is the English translation of the French title, Entrer dans l'élite: parcours de réussite en France, en Inde et aux Etats-Unis. In this book, the author highlights the particular way in which upwardly mobile people in India, France and the United States-countries embodying three distinct stratification systems-make sense of their experience of shifting from one social class to another. Given that people draw upon particular cultural tools or repertoires to analyze their world and situate themselves in it, the author identifies the extent to which narratives of 'success' varies from one country to another. He argues that for any study on social mobility, it is important to take into account national contexts along with associated levels of analysis. In order to account satisfactorily for the way mobility is experienced, the author argues, identifying national repertoires of evaluation and institutional specificities is a decisive, yet insufficient step. Achievement narratives, the author concludes, are the result of a composite influence of the cultural repertoires and the dominant ideologies present in one's immediate context.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Naudet, Jules

Weitere Mitwirkende

George, Renuka

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- List of Tables
Acknowledgement

Introduction

Part 1: Theoretical and Methodological Milestones

1. Redefining the Analytical Framework of the Experience of Social Mobility
2. Comparing the Experience of Social Mobility in France, the United States, and India

3. Succeeding Without Betraying: Caste and Counter-Cultural Challenges of Social Mobility in India

4. Unquestioned Success: Class, Race, and Meritocracy in the United States

5. Mobility Haunted by Class: Etiquette, Distinction, and Hierarchies in France

6. National Specificities: Defining the Background of Origin

Conclusion
Appendices

Index
About the Author and Translator

Über Autor(innen)

Jules Naudet is an alumnus of Sciences Po Paris and of the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales and holds a doctorate in Sociology. His doctoral research focused on a comparative analysis of the experience of upward social mobility in France, India, and the United-States. He carried out his postdoctoral research at the Centre Maurice Halbwachs (EHESS/ENS/CNRS), working on the representation of poverty by inhabitants of upper-class neighborhoods in Paris, Delhi, and São-Paulo. He was head of the Political and Society division of the CSH (New Delhi) from 2012 to 2016 and is currently research fellow at CNRS, France