In China ' s deepening economic reform, higher education plays a crucial role in social stratification and mobility. External higher education is both a symbol of cultural capital and a means of fulfilling social mobility. This article examines the relationship between students'socioeconomic backgrounds and the opportunities derived from cross-border higher education, focusing on Mainland Chine...

The Chinese household registration system (hukou) may be the most important determinant of differential privilege in state socialist China. Urban registrants are entitled to the best jobs, education, housing, and health care -all of which are unavailable to those with rural registration. Thus, transforming one’s hukou status from rural to urban is a central aspect of upward mobility. But given ...

While early stratification students were deeply categorical in their theory and methods, concerning themselves with discrete categories or “bins” such as status, strata, classes, layers and such, Haller already conceived of stratification as a continuous, comparative process. While older theory held that each individual occupied a discrete status to which were attached role expectations which g...

Although a link between lifestyles and social class has long been acknowledged, marketers have more closely identified lifestyles with psychographics and therefore with psychological segmentation. We propose that the origins of lifestyle are more correctly reflected in Weber’s approach to status and that it can be viewed more appropriately as the most relevant form of social stratification for ...

The last 25 years have been a period of cumulative social science in the sociological study of inequality and social mobility. This outcome stems both from the diffusion of new methods of quantitative analysis and from the use of a life-course conceptual model that fostered an incremental approach in research. On the other hand, this positivistic sociology of social stratification has not engen...

A new occupational stratification scale, “HISCAM” (historical CAMSIS), has been developed to facilitate the analysis of data coded to the Historical International Standard Classification of Occupations. This article describes the derivation and properties of the HISCAM measure. The scale was derived using patterns of inter-generational occupational connections, replicating a method of “social i...

Caste as a system of social stratification was an encompassing system in the past. There was reciprocal system of exchange goods and services. With time, occupation and mode of generation of livelihood of various caste groups changed, and the traditional form of jajmani system fizzled out. This paper provides an account of changing perspectives of caste relations in social science writing and p...

We want to study this stratification. A vector bundle E ∈ Ur′,s(r, d) can be written in an exact sequence 0 → E ′ → E → E ′′ → 0 with E , E ′′ vector bundles of ranks r, r and degrees d, d satisfying r = r+r, d = d + d, rd − rd = rd − rd = s. Note that the condition s > 0 is equivalent to the inequality of slopes μ(E ) < μ(E ). One expects that when this condition is satisfied, a generic such e...