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Moving Up without Losing Your Way: The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility by [Jennifer M. Morton]

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The ethical and emotional tolls paid by disadvantaged college students seeking upward mobility and what educators can do to help these students flourish

Upward mobility through the path of higher education has been an article of faith for generations of working-class, low-income, and immigrant college students. While we know this path usually entails financial sacrifices and hard work, very little attention has been paid to the deep personal compromises such students have to make as they enter worlds vastly different from their own. Measuring the true cost of higher education for those from disadvantaged backgrounds, Moving Up without Losing Your Way looks at the ethical dilemmas of upward mobility—the broken ties with family and friends, the severed connections with former communities, and the loss of identity—faced by students as they strive to earn a successful place in society.

Drawing upon philosophy, social science, personal stories, and interviews, Jennifer Morton reframes the college experience, factoring in not just educational and career opportunities but also essential relationships with family, friends, and community. Finding that student strivers tend to give up the latter for the former, negating their sense of self, Morton seeks to reverse this course. She urges educators to empower students with a new narrative of upward mobility—one that honestly situates ethical costs in historical, social, and economic contexts and that allows students to make informed decisions for themselves.

A powerful work with practical implications, Moving Up without Losing Your Way paves a hopeful road so that students might achieve social mobility while retaining their best selves.

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Jennifer M. Morton is associate professor of philosophy at the City College of New York and the Graduate Center, CUNY and senior fellow at the Center for Ethics and Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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"For those of us who work with strivers. . . . Moving Up Without Losing Your Way provides an empathetic and clear-eyed analysis of the difficult choices they must make, and the costs of those choices to both themselves andtheir communities."--James M. Lang, Chronicle of Higher Education --This text refers to the hardcover edition.

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Jennifer Morton is Presidential Penn Compact Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania and a senior fellow at the Center for Ethics and Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Previously, she taught at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, the City College of New York, the Graduate Center-CUNY, and at Swarthmore College. She received her doctorate from Stanford University and her bachelor's degree from Princeton University. She has been awarded the American Philosophical Association’s Scheffler Prize for her work in philosophy of education.

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Eye-opening and clearly written with many examples of culture change, code switching, and ethical challenges that first in family seeking higher education face. From racial, ethnic, immigrant, or lower economic background, the journey can face moral dilemmas and the educational system/ process can be obstacle laden based on real situations. A must read for educators and students.

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Suhani M.

Compelling read for anyone interested in understanding and solving the problems of income inequity

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 1, 2023

This book was life changing. It vividly explains the pain and challenges many communities with limited resources can face when one of their own seeks a better future. It also helped me appreciate the similar challenges my dad faced as a first-generation student, when he had to live far from his family for better prospects.

In this book, Professor Morton explains the concept of ethical costs of upward mobility that strivers face as “those aspects of a life that give it value and meaning—relationships with family and friends, connection to one’s community, and one’s sense of identity,” and then uses a number of case studies to create a compelling argument for the inclusion of those ethical costs in understanding the burden not just on individuals but on communities those individuals used to be a part of. This book gives a new meaning to finding holistic solutions for vexing societal problems particularly from income inequity. As Professor Morton says in the book, “What we need is a new model of upward mobility, one that lifts communities and not just individuals.”

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Social Historian

This book was punching me in the gut

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 7, 2020

Jennifer M. Morton seeks to rewrite the narrative of upward mobility. Rather than limit it to the well-cherished rags to riches stories (ie. Sonia Sotomayor, Ben Carson, etc.), she argues that people from low-income and working-class backgrounds experience a sense of lost and disconnect as they move up the social ladder. In reality, they grow distant, literally and metaphorically, from families, friends, their community, as well as lose a sense of identity. These loses are not replaceable. But quite often to achieve social mobility one has to move far away from family to ensure better job opportunities, higher income, and better schools for their children.

She draws a distinction between what she calls “ethical goods” and “ethical cost.” Ethical goods are things that are meaningful and valuable to us such as family, friends, community, projects, and sometimes work. Ethical costs are what is lost that often comes with upward mobility such as growing distant from family and friends, weaken community bonds, and losing a sense of identity. These can certainly happen to someone from a middle-class household, but they are experienced differently for people from low-income and working-class backgrounds.

Throughout the rest of the book she discusses the perils of code-switching and complicity. Often people code switch in certain environments, but it’s not unusual for people to experience an identity crisis and internalized their new identity. Regarding complicity, the longer one is gone from families and their community, they often can become complicit in institutions that reinforce inequality and easily forget how difficult it is for people to escape poverty. How often have you met someone who grew up poor yet demeans poor people? It’s what sociologists call “the oppresses become the oppressors.”

Morton book is written largely for people in higher education since colleges and universities hold middle- and upper-middle class values and many professionals cannot relate to students from low-income backgrounds. The reasons a student might dropout or go to a state school or community college isn’t always because they’re not academically capable. Sometimes they don’t want to lose the things they value most that would be sacrificed by traveling far away from home. While even in school, they’re still the breadwinners of their family. But I think is a good read for anyone who have obtained some form of social mobility. She doesn’t tell people from disadvantaged backgrounds on what they should do, but to realized that upward mobility comes with a cost. However, there are ways to mitigate it.

As someone who grew up in the welfare class and bounced around poor and mixed-income neighborhoods, I realized that I have grown distant from family and childhood friends. Since I moved 17 times before I was 18, I don’t really have a community I consider to be home. Therefore, I don’t feel the pressure to give back to “my community.” College was transformative since it gave me new experiences (traveling abroad, going on retreats, exposure to unfamiliar cultures, meeting new people, etc.). But it didn’t occur to me until I matriculated into graduate school that I had grown apart from family and friends. With the time and financial ability to travel, I visited some childhood friends and realized we had little to nothing in common anymore. In fact, I wanted to leave within a few days upon visiting. Even the numerous family visits I’ve made since coming to grad school, I don’t feel attached. I often find myself bored during visits. Everybody is at different stages in life and we don’t have many of the same interests anymore. I don’t follow sports closely, don’t play video games, my knowledge of pop culture is limited to film, many people I know don’t follow the news closely, etc. Ideally it would be nice to be located near family, but doing so would severely limit my career aspirations. Despite this, I still do my best to remain in contact even if it might come across as lackluster. Often I wonder how our relationships will be 10 years from now.

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SMH

The perils, and promises, of social mobility

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 12, 2019

Upward social mobility is of course a great good, its possibility a measure of a fair society. Philosopher Jennifer Morton has done a great thing in seeing how much rising through elite institutions can change an individual and taking a cool-eyed look at how those institutions and individuals can rise while still retaining a life richly connected to their family, their communities, and their past. A super smart and engaging and original work of ethnography, memoir, philosophy, and social criticism

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 8, 2020

Interesting book. Presents a complicated argument. Strikers face more challenges than just financial. Society owes more assistance to these people.

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An interesting look at class and further education

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 21, 2020

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Read this book as part of my doctoral research into social class and further education.

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