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Summary
Analytical essay of Britain's broken ladder of social mobility
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Uddrag
The Article Britain's broken Ladder of social mobility is written by Jenni Russell on June 27, 2017, and is published on The New York Times website.
The lack of social mobility in Britain, and how the social background affects your chance of getting good jobs after graduating from Oxford or Cambridge University is discussed.
Even though great efforts have been made to make people from poor backgrounds graduate from university, there are still inequalities between social classes, when it comes to their working lives.
People from lower social classes do not have a social network, like students whose parents have built a big network and scores high in social capital If they against all odds get one of the top jobs, they can not afford to live in London.
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In Britain, your talent and ambitions are not enough to succeed. It takes more than your academics to climb over the hidden barriers in society.
Social mobility is almost non-existent and social capital has greater importance than skills and knowledge. That is what writer Jenni Russel argues in her article Britain's broken Ladder of social mobility in The New York Times.
Education is a key to the world of highly paid jobs, but with a diploma from Oxford or Cambridge you have a golden ticket to a bright future; "After all, Oxbridge graduates dominate the professions:
Only 1 percent of the population went there, but nearly three-quarters of senior judges and more than half of the country's top journalists did."
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