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This chapter begins with a synthesis of Mills’ specification of the sociological imagination as concerned with the intersection of biography and history, with the dynamic turn in social policy studies based on the availability of longitudinal data sets. It notes the importance of consideration of the whole of the life course and the significance of the household for individuals through that life course. The political saliency of social mobility is considered in relation to available data on the extent of relative income mobility through time. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the forms of political change in parties of the left in an era which can be described as both post-industrial and post-democratic.
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Byrne, D. (2019). How Class Is Lived: The Dynamics of Lives and the Dynamic of Society. In: Class After Industry. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02644-8_5
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