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Leveling Up: How Some Working Class Youth Become Middle Class Adults
How do some working-class youth become upwardly mobile while most reproduce their parents’ class position? Using panel interview data from the National Study of Youth and Religion, I trace how youth with similar class origins come to have different class destinations.
How do some working-class youth become upwardly mobile while most reproduce their parents’ class position? Using panel interview data from the National Study of Youth and Religion, I trace how youth with similar class origins come to have different class destinations.