TY - BOOK ID - 118423009 TI - How Inequality Runs in Families : Unfair Advantage and the Limits of Social Mobility AU - Calder, Gideon AU - ProQuest (Firm) PY - 2016 SN - 1447331559 1447331540 1447331532 PB - Bristol, England ; Chicago, Illinois : Policy Press, DB - UniCat KW - Social status. KW - Social mobility. KW - Families. KW - Equality. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - Minority Studies. KW - Discrimination & Race Relations. KW - Social standing KW - Socio-economic status KW - Socioeconomic status KW - Standing, Social KW - Status, Social KW - Power (Social sciences) KW - Prestige KW - Egalitarianism KW - Inequality KW - Social equality KW - Social inequality KW - Political science KW - Sociology KW - Democracy KW - Liberty KW - Family KW - Families KW - Family life KW - Family relationships KW - Family structure KW - Relationships, Family KW - Structure, Family KW - Social institutions KW - Birth order KW - Domestic relations KW - Home KW - Households KW - Kinship KW - Marriage KW - Matriarchy KW - Parenthood KW - Patriarchy KW - Mobility, Social KW - Social aspects KW - Social conditions KW - Social mobility KW - Equality UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:118423009 AB - While we like to think that our society gives everyone a fair chance to succeed and, crucially, move up the social ladder, in reality, children are to an astonishing degree bound by their parents and the class into which they are born. The children of disadvantaged parents typically achieve less financially and die younger than their peers who are born into better-off families. This book reveals how seemingly ordinary aspects of family life, as small as reading bedtime stories and as consequential as inherited income, come together to alter children's life chances and raise fundamental questions about social justice and opportunity. ER -