Geodemographics, Software and Class

Burrows, Roger; Gane, Nicholas

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“…Yet in geography, mobility is largely viewed intra-generationally and empirical work has often focused on the relationship between internal rates of migration and class destinations (Fielding 1992;Findlay et al 2009;Champion et al, 2014). Another extensive literature has explored socio-spatial segregation within many major cities, with research on gentrification (Butler 1997), geodemographic classifications (Burrows and Gane 2006), belonging (Benson 2014;Saage et al 2004), gated communities (Atkinson 2004) and ghettoization (Blokland and Savage 2008) , all insisting on the pivotal role of residential differentiation in marking out contemporary class division in Britain. The main limitation of this work, though, is that it ignores the intergenerational dimension of social mobility, and specifically how issues of class origin may affect patterns of migration or residential segregation.…”

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Is London Really the Engine-Room? Migration, Opportunity Hoarding and Regional Social Mobility in the UK

Friedman

Macmillan

2017

Natl. Inst. econ. rev.

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In this paper we explore for the first time regional differences in the patterning of occupational social mobility in the UK. Drawing on data from Understanding Society (US), supported by the Labour Force Survey (LFS), we examine how rates of absolute and relative intergenerational occupational mobility vary across 19 regions of England, Scotland and Wales. Our findings somewhat problematize the dominant policy narrative on regional social mobility, which presents London as the national 'engine-room' of social mobility. In contrast, we find that those currently living in Inner London have experienced the lowest regional rate of absolute upward mobility, the highest regional rate of downward mobility, and a comparatively low rate of relative upward mobility into professional and managerial occupations. This stands in stark contrast to Merseyside and particularly Tyne and Wear where rates of both absolute and relative upward mobility are high, and downward mobility is low. We then examine this Inner London effect further, finding that it is driven in part by two dimensions of migration. First, among international migrants we find strikingly low rates of upward mobility and high rates of downward mobility. Second, among domestic migrants, we find a striking overrepresentation of those from professional and managerial backgrounds.These privileged domestic migrants, our results indicate, are less likely to experience downward mobility than those from similar backgrounds elsewhere in the country. This may be partly explained by higher educational qualifications, but may also be indicative of a glass floor or opportunity hoarding. AcknowledgementsWe would like to thank Paul Gregg, Ruth Lupton, Dave O'Brien and an anonymous reviewer for comments on previous versions of this paper, which have improved our analysis.

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Section: Regional Social Mobility In Britainmentioning

confidence: 99%

Is London Really the Engine-Room? Migration, Opportunity Hoarding and Regional Social Mobility in the UK

Friedman

Macmillan

2017

Natl. Inst. econ. rev.

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“…I T of empirical S B (2007) argue that social scientific interpretations of social life are threatened by accounts derived from commercial and proprietary access to data produced as a byproduct of transactions and other networked activities. Writers involved in these debates argue that the social sciences urgently need to engage with commercial sociology (Burrows and Gane 2006), not only by criticising it, but by collaborating in its production in order to critically assess its epistemological orientations. This argument is also productive of the kinds of data-related anxieties discussed here: to count as a good social scientist, one increasingly feels obliged to These two phenomena of datafication and neoliberalism also come together in higher education through a felt pressure to work with and then visualise big data.…”

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The Pleasure and Pain of Visualizing Data in Times of Data Power

Kennedy

Hill

2016

Television & New Media

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This paper reflects on the growing urge amongst researchers to visualise large-scale digital data. It argues that the desire to visualise unfolds in the context of a complex entanglement of a) the pragmatics of data visualisation, b) the problematic ideological work that visualisations do, c) the politics of data power and neoliberalism, and d) visualisation pleasures. The paper begins by outlining the considerations that constitute data visualisation design, highlighting the complexity of the process. It then provides an overview of critical debates about the way that visualisations work which are relevant to reflective visualisation practice. Then it turns to the context (of datafication and the neoliberalisation of the university) in which academic researchers contemplate visualisation futures and which simultaneously constrains the realisation of these futures. Finally, the paper acknowledges the cracks in these structures, the pleasure of visualising data, for example in using visualisation for advocacy and social justice.

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“…We also consulted NOMIS Official Labour Market Statistics on employment by occupation at ward level and MOSAIC, a consumer--based classification based on in--depth demographic data that that gives an indication of the types of people living in that neighbourhood based on their consumption practices; in other words, where you live can be indicative of you position within the social structure (see Burrows and Gane, 2006). This supplemented our own conceptions and allowed us to build up a more nuanced understanding of each of the neighbourhoods eventually included in the study.…”

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Trajectories of middle-class belonging: The dynamics of place attachment and classed identities

Benson

2014

Urban Studies

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Benson, Michaela. 2014. Trajectories of middle-class belonging: The dynamics of place attachment and classed identities. Urban Studies, pp. 1-16. ISSN 0042-0980 [Article] http://research.gold.ac.uk/10702/ The version presented here may differ from the published, performed or presented work. Please go to the persistent GRO record above for more information.If you believe that any material held in the repository infringes copyright law, please contact the Repository Team at Goldsmiths, University of London via the following email address: gro@gold.ac.uk.The item will be removed from the repository while any claim is being investigated. For more information, please contact the GRO team: gro@gold.ac.uk 1 Trajectories of belonging: the dynamics of place attachment and classed identities AbstractThis paper examines the processes by which middle--class belonging is generated, through the exploration of social and spatial trajectories in narratives of residential choice and mobility. It is based on an understanding of residential choice as not only indicative of social mobilities, but also constitutive of these. In particular the paper builds on the discussion of the match between habitus and field that lies at the root of the notions of elective belonging (Savage, Bagnall and Longhurst, 2005) and the metropolitan habitus (Butler and Robson, 2003) to draw attention not only to the conditions under which 'fit' is possible, but also acknowledge that belonging is a dynamic process, generated and maintained through residence that feeds back into understandings of classed identities. This paper argues that residential space is not just appropriated to reflect pre--existing tastes and lifestyles, but may also contribute in the transformation of habitus to fit to particular neighbourhoods and ways of living.

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Geodemographics, Software and Class

Cited by 128 publications

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Is London Really the Engine-Room? Migration, Opportunity Hoarding and Regional Social Mobility in the UK

Is London Really the Engine-Room? Migration, Opportunity Hoarding and Regional Social Mobility in the UK

The Pleasure and Pain of Visualizing Data in Times of Data Power

Trajectories of middle-class belonging: The dynamics of place attachment and classed identities

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