The price of the ticket revised: Family members’ experiences of upward social mobility

In recent years, there has been a revived sociological interest in assessing the lived experience of upward social mobility. Several qualitative accounts have highlighted negative emotional imprints mobility, whereas quantitative researchers suggested that picture is far more optimistic. However, both strands literature rely too narrowly on perspectives upwardly mobile individuals themselves. Against this empirical strategy, which expressed works article turns attention family members those who experienced Drawing biographical interviews with and their members, explores, firstly, participants’ diverging experiences assessments secondly, how process affects not only life themselves, but also are commonly seen as having ‘left behind’. doing so, shows including voices can refocus mobility research wider psycho-social costs consequences what often portrayed stories individual ‘success’.