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Illustration from a 1916 advertisement for a vocational school in the back of a US magazine. Education has been seen as a key to social mobility and the advertisement appealed to Americans' belief in the possibility of self-betterment as well as threatening the consequences of downward mobility in the great income inequality existing during the Industrial Revolution.
Sheller and Urry (2006, 215) place mobilities in the sociological tradition by defining the primordial theorist of mobilities as Georg Simmel (1858–1918). Simmel's essays, "Bridge and Door" (Simmel, 1909 / 1994) and "The Metropolis and Mental Life" (Simmel, 1903 / 2001) identify a uniquely human will to connection, as well as the urban demands of tempo and precision that are satisfied with ...
Sponsored mobility refers to a system of social mobility where elite individuals in society select (either directly or through agents) recruits to induct into high status groups.
The 2025 "No List" from the travel guide Fodor's highlights 15 places struggling with tourism, including Venice, Barcelona, and Koh Samui.
Canada is a beautiful country and an outdoors lover's paradise, with national parks such as Banff and amazing winter sports in Whistler.. But outside Quebec and a handful of other provinces ...
Being switched at birth is something you rarely hear about, but a Glen Rose woman said it happened to her almost 50 years ago.
930 million [10] 700 million registered users [10] 10 Snapchat: Snap Inc. United States: 2011 800 million [11] 414 million daily active users [11] 11 Douyin: ByteDance China: 2016 755 million [3] 12 Kuaishou: Kuaishou China: 2011 700 million [3] 13 Weibo: Weibo Corporation China: 2009 586 million [12] 241 million daily active users [13] 14 QQ ...
What is a Green Wave? Here's what to know about the history of Tulane football's nickname ahead of American Conference championship game vs Army: