Preface
Introduction: of ruling classes and underclasses : the laws of social mobility
Social mobility by time and place
Sweden : mobility achieved?
The United States : land of opportunity
Medieval England : mobility in the feudal age
Modern England : the deep roots of the present
A law of social mobility
Nature versus nurture
Testing the laws of mobility
India : caste, endogamy, and mobility
China and Taiwan : mobility after Mao
Japan and Korea : social homogeneity and mobility
Chile : mobility among the oligarchs
The law of social mobility and family dynamics
Protestants, Jews, gypsies, Muslims, and copts : exceptions to the law of mobility?
Mobility anomalies
The good society
Is mobility too low? : mobility versus inequality
Escaping downward social mobility
Appendix 1: Measuring social mobility
Appendix 2: Deriving social mobility rates from surname frequencies
Appendix 3: Discovering the status of your surname lineage
Data sources for figures and tables
References
Index.
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The son also rises : surnames and the history of social mobility by Gregory Clark. ISBN 9780691162546. Published by Princeton University Press in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
