Social class pathways: clarity, shadow and twilight
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https://doi.org/10.54789/rihumso.21.10.20.6Keywords:
social class, gender, trajectories, social mobility, family treesAbstract
We present a qualitative analysis of long-term social mobility trajectories from the working class to the middle sectors in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires.
Through the analysis of life stories that captured work and family dimensions, complemented with family trees, we recorded detailed information on fourteen about individuals and their families. Thus, we analyzed mechanisms and processes underlying typical 20th-century trajectories of upward mobility in Argentina. We conclude that a gender perspective is relevant, for example, because of the decisive role played by mothers as a condition that enables further upward mobility. Likewise, shadow trajectories, that is, the non-accomplished potentialities of social destiny that can be inferred from siblings´ diverging trajectories, afford new insights into how such processes take place.
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