Social MobilityHarper & Brothers, 1927 - 559 pages |
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Page 38 - The modern laborer, on the contrary, instead of rising with the progress of industry, sinks deeper and deeper below the conditions of existence of his own class. He becomes a pauper, and pauperism develops more rapidly than population and wealth.
Page 38 - Further, as we have already seen, entire sections of the ruling classes are by the advance of industry precipitated into the proletariat, or are at least threatened in their conditions of existence. These also supply the proletariat with fresh elements of enlightenment and progress.
Page 327 - I acknowledge freely the great power of education and social influences in developing the active powers of the mind, just as I acknowledge the effect of use in developing the muscles of a blacksmith's arm, and no further.
Page 55 - Its temporary rise at the end of the eighteenth and at the beginning of the nineteenth century is easily explained.
Page 95 - American congress of 1776, when they say they hold as self-evident that " all men are created equal " and are " endowed with certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness...
Page 34 - The wealth of the country, however divided, was insufficient before the war for a general high standard ; there is nothing as yet to show that it will be greater in the future.
Page 39 - ... flat" form of a society with economic equality. At the present moment there is no need to insist upon the fallacy of Marx's theory and prediction. The 75 years which have elapsed since the Communist Manifesto did not corroborate Marx's expectation and prophecy. In the first place in all European countries and in the United States since the second half of the nineteenth century up to the time of the World War, the economic conditions of the laboring class have been improving and not becoming worse,...
Page 65 - Seisachtheia, he communicated his intention to some members of the upper class, whereupon, as the partisans of the popular party say, his friends stole a march on him; while those who wish to attack his character maintain that he too had a share in the fraud himself. For these persons borrowed money and bought up a large amount of land, and so when, a short time afterwards, all debts were cancelled, they became wealthy; and this, they say, was the origin of the families which were afterwards looked...
Page 136 - I mean the vertical social distance, or the number of strata — economic, or occupational, or political — crossed by the individual in his upward or downward movement in a definite period of time. If, for instance, one individual in one year climbed from the position of a man with a yearly income of $500 to a position with an income of $50,000, while another man in the same period succeeded in increasing his income only from $500 to...
Page 104 - A king and a Brahmana, deeply versed in the Vedas, these two, uphold the moral order in the world. 1015 2. On them depends the existence of the fourfold human race...