CRJ 306 Lecture 5: CRJ 306 Notes - Week 3 Lecture 5: Social Mobility
24 Oct 2021
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First, before we can truly answer those 2 questions, we have to understand. How do we position ourselves to be better than the generation before us? changes in social position. How a person moves up or down the social ladder during their lifetime. How you move up or down in social position compared to the rest of society. Children work in a different occupation than their parents but remain in a similar social positionmake pretty much the same amount of money when you adjust for inflation. Studies show that about 80% of children experience horizontal. About of males took occupations like their fathers. Studies show that 90% of the children born in the 1940s earned more than their parents as adults, only 50% of children born in the 1980s did. Of those born in the bottom portion of our income/social status, 36% remain as adults. Only 10% vault to the top of the income/social status.
