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Introduction Like other feminised caring professions, nursing1 is associated with offering working-class women a route to upward social mobility (Huppatz, 2010), yet there is a lack of sociological research on nurses’ class origins.2 Social mobility research tends to focus on the ‘higher professions’ (Friedman et al., 2017). Nursing, on the contrary, is not only a ‘lower profession’, but it is also one where around 90% of the workforce are female (RCN, 2020a).
Recorded on 2 November 2015 at Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building A fresh take on social class from the experts behind the BBC's 'Great British Class Survey'. Social class has re-emerged as a topic of enormous scholarly and public attention. In this new book, Social Class in the 21st Century, Mike Savage and the team of sociologists responsible for the Great British Class Survey report their definitive findings and propose a new way of thinking about social class in Britain today.
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