Subjective Inequality and Mobility in Comparative Perspectives II

Tuesday, 8 July 2025: 11:00-12:45

Location: SJES007 (Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences (JES))

RC28 Social Stratification (host committee)

Language: English

Session Block

Session Organizers:

Yu XIE, Princeton University, USA and Sandra FACHELLI, Pablo de Olavide University, Spain

Chair:

Sandra FACHELLI, Pablo de Olavide University, Spain

Oral Presentations

"and When I've Worked for Two Years, I Will be a Bit Higher up" - Discrepant Self-Classifications through the Lens of Subjective Interpretations of Inequality, Social Mobility Expactations and Experiences.
Arne KOEVEL, University of Bremen, Germany; Patrick SACHWEH, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany; Sebastian JÜRSS, University of Bremen, Germany

Class Position and Class Imagery in Iceland, 2009-2019
Guðmundur ODDSSON ODDSSON, University of Akureyri, Iceland

Aligning or Misaligning? the Interplay of Subjective and Objective Social Status in Ten High Income Countries over Two Decades
Andrew ZOLA, France; Ettore RECCHI, Sciences Po, Paris, France

The Great Gatsby Tradeoff: Perceived Complementarity between Economic Inequality and Social Mobility
Yu XIE, Princeton University, USA; Shiyuan LI SHIYUAN, Peking University, China

Does Inequality Blur Class Lines? Meritocratic Attitudes in Comparative Perspective
Roshan PANDIAN, USA; Ronald KWON, University of North Texas, USA

Distributed Papers

Beyond Economic Bargaining: Effects of Work-Related Internal Migration on Subjective Well-Being from a Couple Perspective
Nico STAWARZ, Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB), Germany; Elias HOFMANN, Federal Institute for Population Research, Germany; Heiko RUEGER, Federal Institute for Population Research, Germany; Nicolai NETZ, DZHW, Germany

Factors Impacting Optimism about Future Mobility: A Descriptive Study
Prateek TANANIA, University of Rajasthan, India; Swati PAREEK, University of Rajasthan, India

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