Privilege Lost by Jessi Streib

Author:Jessi Streib [Streib, Jessi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2020-03-29T16:00:00+00:00

Table 8.1 Inherited Resources, Identities, and the Number and Percent of Downwardly Mobile Respondents

Resource Strengths Resource Weaknesses

Professional Identity 1/27 (4%) 4/13 (31%)

Nonprofessional Identity 6/14 (43%) 39/53 (74%)

For upper-middle-class youth with resource-identity mismatches, what mattered more for their mobility trajectory—their inherited resources or their identities? It often varied by person according to the strength of their inherited resources and identities. Some youth had such dramatic inherited resource strengths or weaknesses that they would shape their mobility trajectories no matter their identity. Other youth had such strongly held identities that they would shape their mobility paths no matter their inherited resources.

This chapter spotlights four youth with resource-identity mismatches to show how both inherited resources and identities relate to mobility. It begins with youth whose identities divert them from the mobility trajectories their resources placed them on then moves to youth whose resources divert them from the pathways their identities moved them toward. Next, the chapter examines youth whose inherited resources or identities changed dramatically. Doing so shows how identities can lead youth toward or away from their original social class, regardless of their resources.

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