Die Dissertation widmet sich den intragenerationalen Aufstiegsprozessen von Haushalten aus der Mittelschicht zu den Wohlhabenden. Intragenerationale Mobilitätsforschung wird bislang vor allem als arbeitsmarktbezogene Inidivualmobilität angesehen. Diese Dissertation erweitert den Ansatz auf die Ebene des Haushaltes. Dem liegt der Gedanke zugrunde, dass die soziale Position eines Individuums nicht allein durch sein Erwerbseinkommen determiniert wird. Ebenso entscheidend ist der Kontext des Haushaltes. Dieser bestimmt darüber, wie viele Personen zum Einkommen beitragen können und wie viele daran partizipieren. Weiterhin kommt der Haushaltsebene in Paar-Haushalten die Rolle des Aushandlungsortes zu. Hier wird über Familienplanung, Kinderwunsch und damit in Zusammenhang stehend auch über die Erwerbsbeteiligung der Partner entscheiden. Die vorliegende Dissertation untersucht diese Annahmen mithilfe von Daten des Sozioökonomischen Panels (SOEP) der Jahre 1984 bis 2010. Der Fokus liegt auf der Erwerbsbeteiligung und dem Bildungsniveau des Haushaltes, seiner Struktur, sowie dem Beruf des Haushaltsvorstandes. Es wird davon ausgegangen, dass dies die Hauptfaktoren sind, die über die finanziellen Möglichkeiten eines Haushaltes entscheiden. Ein weiterer Schwerpunkt der Arbeit liegt in der Berücksichtigung des historischen Kontextes, da anzunehmen ist, dass die oben benannten Faktoren sich und ihren Einfluss auf die Aufstiegsmöglichkeiten von Haushalten im historischen Verlauf verändert haben. / This dissertation is about the intra-generational upward mobility of households from middle to upper class. Research on intra-generational mobility often only analyses individual mobility in the context of labour market. This dissertation takes an additional look on the context of households. This is done on the opinion that the social position of individuals is not only determined by its labour market income. Also the context of the household is very important. The structure of household decides about how many individuals can contribute income to the household income and how many people participate from this income. In a couple-household it is also the place to decide about family planning, children and related to this about labour participation of each individual. The dissertation analyses these hypotheses with the data of the socio-economic panel (SOEP) of the years 1984 to 2010. The focus of this analysis is on labour market participation, the level of education, the structure of households and the job of the head of household. It is assumend that these are the main criterias which determine the household income and so the chance to upward mobility. An additional focus of the dissertation is on the historical context. It is assumed that the mentioned criterias change their influences on the upward mobility of households over time.

Based on available studies on business and management fields of study as upwardly-mobile university field of study choices as a basis, this study seeks to test this hypothesis of upward mobility. In doing so, it endeavours to identify correlations between field of study choice and educational background and between field of study choice and gender. The base data is taken from a survey of all domestic first-time students at Austrian universities in the 2011/12 winter semester (N=27,575). This data was subjected to a correspondence analysis, which allowed us to visualise and interpret the relations between the positions of these fields of study in the university space. The results indicate a clearly structured (stratified) university space. Our supplementary regression analysis shows that the upwardly-mobile higher education choice hypothesis can be confirmed for the fields of study studied. Our analyses also confirm the feminisation hypothesis for the business and management fields of study studied: women significantly more frequently select fields of study which lead to a career in a pedagogic (business education), social (social economy) or language (international business and management) context. In the group of fields of study explored, business education fields of study had both the highest share of first-time students and the highest level of feminisation. In contrast, economics fields of study, which was included in the analysis in addition to the business studies and management fields of study, have a significantly higher share of male students and the lowest share of higher education climbers. (authors' abstract)

abstract: Mixed-income housing policy has been an approach to address the problem of concentrated poverty since the 1990s. The idea of income mix in housing is founded on the proposition that economic opportunities of the poor can be expanded through the increasing of their social capital. The current in-depth case study of Vineyard Estates, a mixed-income housing development in Phoenix, AZ tests a hypothesis that low-income people improve their chances of upward social mobility by building ties with more affluent residents within the development. This study combines qualitative and quantitative methods to collect and analyze information including analysis of demographic data, resident survey and in-depth semi-structured interviews with residents, as well as direct observations. It focuses on examining the role of social networks established within the housing development in generating positive economic outcomes of the poor. It also analyzes the role of factors influencing interactions across income groups and barriers to upward social mobility. Study findings do not support that living in mixed-income housing facilitates residents' upward social mobility. The study concludes that chances of upward social mobility are restrained by structural factors and indicates a need to rethink the effectiveness of mixed-income housing as an approach for alleviating poverty. / Dissertation/Thesis / M.U.E.P. Urban and Environmental Planning 2013

This thesis explores career trajectories and experiences of Czech Roma professionals in order to understand the relation between their ethnic affiliation and career development in terms of obstacles, strategies and relationships that enabled them to succeed in becoming professionals. The study produces knowledge that fills the empirical research gap about Roma professionals in the Czech Republic. Thematic analysis was used to analyze seven semi-structured interviews. The analysis concludes that the Roma professionals face obstacles that include the lack of cultural capital in families, gender-related obstacles, ‘Roma bubble’ and finally the racial prejudices and workplace incivility. However, the projects supporting Roma and a range of supportive relationships have the exceptionally important role in overcoming those obstacles. The study also contributes to the theoretical discussion about the link between social mobility of minorities and their identification. It shows that the processes of selective and consonant assimilation take place at the same time.

<p>Through an analysis of contemporary films, novels, comics, and other popular texts, my dissertation argues that upward class mobility, as the progress narrative through which the American Dream has solidified itself in literary and cultural convention, is based on a false logic of "self-made" individualism. The texts I examine tell a new kind of mobility story: one that openly acknowledges the working-class community interdependence underpinning individuals' ability to rise to their accomplishments. My work spotlights distinctly un-rich communities invested in the welfare of their most vulnerable citizens. It also features goal-oriented individuals who recognize the personal impact of this investment as well as the dignity of poor and working-class people from "heartland" Texas to Lower East Side Manhattan. American-exceptionalist stories no longer ring true with popular audiences faced with diminishing access to economic resources and truly democratic political representation. The growing wealth gap between the corporate elite and everyone else has resulted in a healthy mass skepticism toward simplistic narratives of hard work guaranteeing the comforts of a middle-clas life. The archive I have identified displays a fundamental commitment to the social contract that is perhaps the greatest of U.S. working-class values, offering a hopeful vision of collective accountability to readers and viewers struggling to avoid immobilizing debt, foreclosure, and the unemployment line.</p> / Dissertation

Many women struggle to move up the career ladder. Women aspiring to executive positions in community colleges within the United States may face gender barriers, family-work life barriers, and barriers regarding their leadership ability. The problem studied was a gap in knowledge of how women succeeded in attaining executive positions in community colleges. The purpose of this study was to examine ways that female leaders at Southern California community colleges assumed executive-level roles at their institutions and the barriers they faced to attain those positions . The theory of upward mobility and the concept of self-efficacy comprised the study's conceptual framework. The research questions in this qualitative case study focused on barriers to women's upward mobility and ways that women overcame these barriers. Face-to-face structured interviews were conducted with a purposeful sample of 12 women who held positions of vice president or above at 8 Southern California community colleges within 2 counties. Interview data were coded using clustering and classification and resulted in 3 themes per research question. The results suggested that executive leaders must demonstrate communication savviness to address difficult situations, engage in active information searching and empower others through helpful communication. Findings of the study suggest formal mentorship was crucial for women in their quest for leadership roles. Prospective female leaders in higher education may be able to use the study results in navigating their careers. Positive social change may result with the greater visibility of women in executive leadership roles, thereby leading to reduced gender disparities and women achieving their highest potential in the workplace.

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This basic qualitative study examines the parental investment strategies of first-generation African American rural college graduates in cultivating college student success. Extant literature has demonstrated that the role of the family is necessary to support the college student and that the investment of the parent is paramount to student college completion. Although educational attainment is an important goal for African American rural residents, research detailing strategies that cultivated student college completion among this population is needed to fill the gaps in the literature. The objectives were to discuss communication, involvement, and factors of influence to determine how these parents transferred their educational beliefs to their children and supported them through college graduation. These stories of success were told through the eyes of first-generation parents and their second-generation adult offspring. Research detailing the parental investment strategies toward college completion is necessary to inform parents, educational institutions, and rural college student completion in postsecondary institutions of the strategies necessary to ensure college success in this population. Lieberman’s transgenerational theory, along with concepts extracted from parental investment as it relates to education, provided the conceptual lens for the study. Data collected through interviews and documents were analyzed utilizing content analysis. Ten semistructured interviews were conducted with parents and their adult offspring. Interviews gleaned the lived experiences of the participants. Data analysis revealed six themes: (a) Catch Them Early, (b) Set the Tone, (c) Keep Them Busy, (d) Don’t Let Them “Break Rank,” (e) Encourage Advancement, and (f) Tell the Generations. The findings support the importance of developing a family investment team, how a return on parental investment occurs, making use of rural extracurricular programming, and transferring positive beliefs regarding higher education.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T20:39:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 3061.pdf: 1347748 bytes, checksum: 500780e85319f77c6b6e919e1779301c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-09-25 / Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais / This work has the focus to bring reflection about identity and trajectory of some black professionals and businessman from west of the State of Sao Paulo. We search to know how these black people walk their path and lifestyle and meaning and remaining their identity when reach important posts and positions at the work market, that is, when reach a raising social and economic mobility. In this way, first counting on a bibliographic review about the thematics cited above and subsequently with an analytic descriptive moment that will count on exposition and analysis of the data obtained in interviews made with middle class black people from local authority of Sao Carlos and Araraquara. It has also the intention to do a qualitative analysis so we can get more precisely results for reflection in a conclusive way about the construction of the black people s identity and insertion in the Brazilian work market. / Este trabalho tem como foco trazer algumas reflexões sobre a identidade e a trajetória de alguns profissionais liberais e empresários negros do Oeste Paulista. O objetivo é saber como estes negros (as) traçam suas trajetórias e estilos de vida e significam e resignificam as suas identidades ao alcançarem cargos e posições importantes no mercado de trabalho, ou seja, quando adquirem uma mobilidade social e econômica ascendente. Desta forma, o estudo contará primeiramente com uma revisão bibliográfica parcial sobre as temáticas supracitadas e, posteriormente, com uma descrição analítica dos dados obtidos nas entrevistas realizadas com sujeitos da pesquisa dos municípios de São Carlos e Araraquara. Terá também como objetivo específico fazer uma análise qualitativa com o propósito de se obter resultados mais precisos para a reflexão de forma não conclusiva sobre a construção da identidade e a inserção do negro (a) em uma posição não típica, para este grupo, no mercado de trabalho brasileiro.

[pt] O objetivo do presente trabalho é investigar os projetos coletivos e individuais e as trajetórias de vida de jovens afrodescendentes que buscam, no ensino superior, um mecanismo eficiente de ascensão social. Seguindo os indícios apontados pelos estudos de mobilidade social no Brasil e nos Estados Unidos, será prioritariamente estudado o percurso de jovens que formam a primeira geração de bacharéis em suas famílias. Esta investigação analisará a burocratização do corpo como chave interpretativa de um ethos social que tem na ascensão social, um valor central. Desta forma, a corporificação dos sinais de distinção social acaba por construir um habitus associado ao sucesso e ao prestígio social. Através da investigação etnográfica com jovens afrodescendentes universitários podemos colocar em xeque a pretensa predominância de comportamentos de assimilação, como o branqueamento e o action White, como via principal para a ascensão social. Utilizando os significados, sentidos e valores que constroem as narrativas sobre as trajetórias de vida e projetos ascensionais acompanhamos a combinação particular de fatores culturais, como a concepção de raça e classe, que tem no corpo seu lócus privilegiado de análise. Analisamos em última instância como o projeto ascensional está ligado a dinâmica do englobamento e do individualismo. / [en] The aim of this study was investigate the projects and individual pathways of young African descendent, who seek in higher education, an efficient mechanism for social mobility. Based on the evidence pointed by previous studies of social mobility in Brazil and the United States, is primarily studied the route of young that are the first-generation college students. This research will examine the bureaucratization of the body s sense as key interpretive social ethos, which has in social mobility a central value. Thus, the embodiment of the signs of social distinction ultimately builds a habitus, associated with success and social prestige. In this sense, the present study proposes to conduct an ethnographic study with young African descendent students we can put into question the alleged predominance of assimilation behaviors, such as whiteness and the action White as the main route to social mobility. Will use chains of meanings, feeling and values, built on a unique combination of cultural factors that have in your body privileged locus of analysis. We analyze ultimately as the ascension project is linked to the dynamics of hierarchical and individualism ideology.