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LEADER: 02029cam a2200277 i 4500
001 2013042815
003 DLC
005 20140612100122.0
008 131104s2014 njuab b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2013042815
020 $a9780691162546 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aHT612$b.C58 2014
082 00 $a305.5/1309$223
100 1 $aClark, Gregory,$d1957-
245 14 $aThe son also rises :$bsurnames and the history of social mobility /$cGregory Clark [and 11 others].
264 1 $aPrinceton, New Jersey :$bPrinceton University Press,$c[2014]
300 $axii, 364 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aPrinceton economic history of the Western world
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 333-348) and index.
505 0 $aPreface -- Introduction: of ruling classes and underclasses : the laws of social mobility -- Social mobility by time and place -- Sweden : mobility achieved? -- The United States : land of opportunity -- Medieval England : mobility in the feudal age -- Modern England : the deep roots of the present -- A law of social mobility -- Nature versus nurture -- Testing the laws of mobility -- India : caste, endogamy, and mobility -- China and Taiwan : mobility after Mao -- Japan and Korea : social homogeneity and mobility -- Chile : mobility among the oligarchs -- The law of social mobility and family dynamics -- Protestants, Jews, gypsies, Muslims, and copts : exceptions to the law of mobility? -- Mobility anomalies -- The good society -- Is mobility too low? : mobility versus inequality -- Escaping downward social mobility -- Appendix 1: Measuring social mobility -- Appendix 2: Deriving social mobility rates from surname frequencies -- Appendix 3: Discovering the status of your surname lineage -- Data sources for figures and tables -- References -- Index.
650 0 $aSocial mobility$xHistory.