SOC220H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Status Attainment, Odds Ratio, Weighted Arithmetic Mean
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Movement up or down the socioeconomic hierarchy either across one"s own lifetime or across generations. Movement between classes within one"s own lifetime. Example: promotion from assembly line worker to foreman. Movement between classes from one generation to the next. Example: the son of an assembly line worker grows up to become a manager. Add diagonal and divided by the total number. Way to calculate is the same as absolute mobility. Two extremes of the extent of social mobility. The proportion of children from the same class origin in different class destinations. The relative chances of being in one versus another destination class when an individual comes from one versus another origin class. Measured by odds ratio (the chance some event occurs divided by the chance the event doesn"t occur) 2. 25 more possible for the service class"s children to end up in the service class rather than children from the manual class.
