Book contents
- Modern Brazil
- Modern Brazil
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Maps
- Graphs
- Tables
- Introduction
- 1 Brazil at Mid-Century
- 2 Political and Economic Evolution of Brazil
- 3 Demographic Change
- 4 Women, Family, and Work
- 5 The Welfare State and Income Transfers
- 6 Urban Life in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
- 7 Stratification and Mobility
- 8 Race and Stratification
- 9 Organization of Civil Society
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
7 - Stratification and Mobility
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 February 2020
Book contents
- Modern Brazil
- Modern Brazil
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Maps
- Graphs
- Tables
- Introduction
- 1 Brazil at Mid-Century
- 2 Political and Economic Evolution of Brazil
- 3 Demographic Change
- 4 Women, Family, and Work
- 5 The Welfare State and Income Transfers
- 6 Urban Life in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
- 7 Stratification and Mobility
- 8 Race and Stratification
- 9 Organization of Civil Society
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Rapid industrialization and urbanization leads at first to secular rates of social mobility. Who benefits and how this occurs. The slow change to circular mobility and the blockages to social ascent are examined.
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- Modern BrazilA Social History, pp. 238 - 281Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020