How do hawker vendors achieve upward social mobility despite low educational status?

• Main Authors: Cheang, Joanne Zu Er, Khoe, Wei Jun, Lim, Yu Cheng
• Other Authors: Jung Jong Hyun
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Social sciences::Sociology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/78713
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This research seeks to elucidate how hawkers achieve upward social mobility. To do so, 12 hawker owners or co-owners were obtained via purposive sampling and interviewed. The results showed that hawkers need to embody cultural capital that includes grit, skill and knowledge, language to communicate...