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Recent utilitarian changes to the priorities of universities do little to foster social equality
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Recent utilitarian changes to the priorities of universities do little to foster social equality
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TODAY “social mobility” is a synonym for fairness and meritocracy in many Western societies. There are all kinds of flaws with this as a project — and they become abundantly clear when we consider women’s experiences. By examining women’s lives across the past century, we see the need to fight for a more egalitarian society and for true liberation — not just a few more black or female faces in our ruling class. The sociologist John Goldthorpe set the parameters for how mobility is measured and understood back in the early 1970s. Goldthorpe argued that mobility could be measu...
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