SOCIOL 2R03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Christopher Jencks, Structural Unemployment, Equal Opportunity
8 May 2016
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Circular mobility: the circular movement of people (up down and up again) Structural mobility: shifts in the economy which allow for greater movement of people (either up or down) After world war 2 (1950"s) the changes in the economy allowed people of lower stature move up the job latter and become middle-class. Don"t have this today because the economy is unstable. Reproduction mobility: those at the bottom have more children than those at the top. Immigration mobility: refers to a social system where newcomers start from the bottom and are given a little more opportunities to move up the job letter. Newer immigrants that come into the country are more likely to be hired than long-standing groups of immigrants in the country. Read the example by sernau (2014:212) on immigrants and immigrant tensions between long standing groups and newer immigrant groups in.
