Sociology / Unit 6 Soc 0831 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Intergenerational Mobility
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The idea
Intergenerational mobility is the difference in social position between a person and their parents, and it is the standard measure of how open a society is.
In practice
Comparing a child's eventual position with the household they were raised in gives the measure.
Where people slip
A society can show high individual mobility and unchanged overall inequality.
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