Sociology / Unit 6 Soc 0830 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Social Mobility
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The idea
Social mobility is movement between positions in a stratification system, whether upward, downward, or lateral.
In practice
A nation that abolished formal barriers to a profession later saw entrants whose parents had been barred from it.
Where people slip
Mobility describes the movement of people between layers, and it never means the layers themselves disappeared.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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