HIST 110a Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Brain Surgeons
10 Sep 2016
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Social mobility: movement from one class - or status group - to another. Stratification system - social and economic situation/status one is born into. Ex: caste system - born a streetsweeper, difficult to be anything other than a streetsweeper. Ex 2: promise of united states - a system that is relatively open; based on merit and achievement. Open (more open to mobility) vs. closed (mobility is harder to achieve) Is your life better than that of your parents? (socioeconomic status) Random total mobility only based on merit. 60% of those born into uwc will stay there. *everything discussed so far has been in comparison all relative. Another equally and valid way to approach absolute method. Exchange: idea that for everyone that moves up, someone must move down. Structural: room at the top expands, lesser players pushed up. May think they did it themselves when structural change caused it. The lower the retirement age, the more job turnover.
