SOCL 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Conservative Force, Digital Divide, The Dilemma
22 Mar 2016
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Social mobility- movement up or down the social class ladder (upward and downward social mobility) Structural mobility- changes in society that allow large numbers of people to move up or down the class ladder. I. e. government programs that give money/loans for college, easy access to credit, high rates of unemployment, recession, etc. Determines our control over our social class. Intergenerational mobility; grown-up children end up on a different rung of the social class ladder from the one occupied by their parents. Structural mobility; changes in society that allow large numbers of people to move up or down the class ladder. He argues that power- the ability to get your way despite resistance- was concentrated in the hands of a few. Coined the term, power elite, to refer to those who make the big decisions in society. Forbes" annual ranking of the world"s most powerful people. Popular author in the 1800s: rags-to-riches stories about overcoming severe odds to make it .
