Examples of intra-generational mobility in the following topics:
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- Social mobility can be vertical and horizontal, absolute and relative, and between generations.
- An employee of a large corporation who starts in the mailroom and ends up in a high level management position demonstrates intra-generational mobility — they improve their status over their lifetime.
- The British middle class thus experienced absolute upward mobility.
- Other times, social mobility is intra-generational, meaning that a person changes status within their lifetime.
- For example, Western capitalist countries are generally meritocratic.
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- Social mobility is the movement of an individual or group from one social position to another over time.
- Social mobility typically refers to vertical mobility, movement of individuals or groups up or down from one socio-economic level to another, often by changing jobs or marriage.
- Nonetheless, social mobility can also refer to horizontal mobility, movement from one position to another within the same social level, as when someone changes between two equally prestigious occupations.
- Other times, social mobility is intra-generational, meaning that a person changes status within their lifetime.
- For example, Western capitalist countries are generally meritocratic.
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- Social mobility is the extent to which individuals can move between social positions, either in their lifetime or between generations.
- Social mobility typically refers to vertical mobility—movement of individuals or groups up or down from one socio-economic level to another, often by changing jobs or marriage.
- Other times, social mobility is intra-generational, meaning that a person changes status within their lifetime.
- For example, Western capitalist countries are generally meritocratic, in which social standing is based on such personal attributes as educational attainment, income, and occupational prestige.
- Recent data shows that of nine developed countries, the United States and United Kingdom have the lowest intergenerational vertical social mobility, with about half of the advantages of having a parent with a high income passed on to the next generation.
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- Strong social and economic mobility is considered part of American Dream, though there is relatively low social mobility in the U.S.
- This "vertical" mobility can be the change in socioeconomic status between parents and children ("inter-generational"), or over the course of a lifetime ("intra-generational").
- The limit to women's and minorities' upward mobility is called the glass ceiling.
- In the United States, white males have greater social mobility than women and racial/ethnic minorities, whose mobility is limited by the glass ceiling.
- Explain how the "glass ceiling" and other factors lower social mobility in the United States
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- Generally, a theory of change should include elements such as structural aspects of change (like population shifts), processes and mechanisms of social change, and directions of change.
- Political Process Theory is similar to resource mobilization theory (which considers the mobilization of resources to be the key ingredient of a successful movement) in many regards, and emphasizes political opportunities as the social structure that is important for social movement development.
- "Organizational strength" falls in line with resource-mobilization theory, arguing that in order for a social movement to organize it must have strong leadership and sufficient resources.
- Some groups may have the insurgent consciousness and resources to mobilize, but because political opportunities are closed, they will not have any success.
- Critics of the political process theory and resource-mobilization theory point out that neither theory discusses the culture of movements to any great degree.
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- For example, prestige used to be associated with one's family name (ascribed status), but for most people in developed countries, prestige is now generally tied to one's occupation (achieved status).
- Prestige is a strong element in social mobility.
- While these opportunities are not equally available to everyone, one's choices can, at least to a limited extent, increase or decrease one's prestige, and lead to social mobility.
- Compare the two types of prestige - achieved and ascribed, and how prestige is related to power, property and social mobility
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- The traditional focuses of sociology have included social stratification, social class, culture, social mobility, religion, secularization, law, and deviance.
- The discipline's dominant scientifically-oriented areas generally focus on a different set of theoretical perspectives, generally referred to as sociological theory.
- These include new institutionalism, social networks, social identity, social and cultural capital, toolkit and cognitive theories of culture, and resource mobilization.
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- Some thinkers argue that in the last few decades trends associated with globalization have increased the mobility of people and capital.
- Although international trade has always existed, some thinkers argue that a number of trends associated with globalization have caused an increase in the mobility of people and capital since the last quarter of the 20th century.
- It is generally used to refer to economic globalization: the global distribution of the production of goods and services, through reduction of barriers to international trade such as tariffs, export fees, and import quotas; and the reduction of restrictions on the movement of capital and on investment.
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- These panics are generally fuelled by media coverage of social issues (although semi-spontaneous moral panics do occur and some moral panics have historically been fueled by religious missions, governmental campaigns, and scientific mobilizing against minority groups that used media outlets to further their claims), and often include a large element of mass hysteria.
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- The British aristocracy is an instance where wealth, power, and prestige do not necessarily align--the aristocracy is upper class and generally has significant political influence, but members are not necessarily wealthy.
- The British aristocracy is an instance where wealth, power, and prestige do not necessarily align — the aristocracy is upper class and generally has significant political influence, but members are not necessarily wealthy.
- Class mobility refers to movement from one class status to another--either upward or downward.
- This approach facilitates tracking people over time to measure relative class mobility.
- For example, the income and education level of parents can be compared to that of their children to show inter-generational class mobility.