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Material Type: | Thesis/dissertation |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Corine Hagouel Descault; Pierre Dommergues; Université de Paris VIII. |
OCLC Number: | 490613335 |
Notes: | 1988PA080231. |
Description: | 302 f. ; 30 cm. |
Responsibility: | CORINE HAGOUEL HAGOUEL DESCAULT ; SOUS LA DIRECTION DE PIERRE DOMMERGUES. |
Abstract:
IN THIS DISSERTATION, TWO KINDS OF SOCIAL MOBILITY WILL BE DISTINGUISHED. A GLOBAL ONE, WHICH HAS BEEN INHERENT IN MAN FROM HIS FIRST DAYS ON EARTH, AS WELL AS AN INDIVIDUAL ONE WHICH APPEARED MUCH LATER IN EUROPE, IN PARTICULAR WITH THE REFORMATION. THIS LATTER MOBILITY WHICH IS THE FOUNDATION AND JUSTIFICATION OF THE UNITED STATES, IS MORE ALIVE IN THE NEW WORLD THAN IN EUROPE. GLOBAL OR INDIVIDUAL MOBILITY IS USUALLY AND NATURALLY THOUGHT OF, AS BEING LINKED TO PROGRESS, THAT IS TO PROMOTION, ALTHOUGH IT MAY SOMETIMES CORRESPOND TO SOME REGRESSION. VARIOUS FACTORS CAN MODIFY IT, SUCH AS TRADE UNIONISM, EDUCATION, TAXATION, WHICH FUNCTION TO REGULATE IT. THEIR ACTIONS DIFFER ACCORDING TO THE DIFFERENT POLICIES OF DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENTS. BELONGING TO A DEFINITE ETHNIC GROUP, WHICH IS VERY CLOSE TO THE REFERENCE, THE WASP ONE, OR MORE OR LESS DISTANT FROM IT, CANNOT BUT MODIFY SOCIAL MOBILITY. FINALLY, IF SPECIFIC ECONOMIC FACTORS OF A DEFINITE PERIOD ARE BENEFICIAL TO SOME PEOPLE, THEY IMPOVERISH OTHERS. THE PRESENT RECESSION INEVITABLY MODIFIES SOCIAL PROMOTION AMONG THE DIFFERENT GROUPS AND SOCIAL CLASSES. THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS IS FOR THE MOST PART THREATENED BY SOCIAL REGRESSION. THIS MIDDLE CLASS HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE SYMBOL OF DEMOCRACY AND THE MAINSTAY OF THE UNITED STATES.
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