SOC320 Lecture : chap 59.docx

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Intergenerational mobility your occupation, when it"s all said and done, compared to your parents; can be upwards or downwards. Upward intragenerational mobility you start off at a crappy job, end up with a good job; you move up before you die. Downward intragenerational mobility you start off with a good job, get kicked out of the association, end up with a crappy job; you move down. A persons occupational standing is compared to a parent"s occupational standing. There"s also downward intergenerational mobility (called social sliders) If parents are very successful in life, it"s very hard to top them. Sometimes when children come from a successful family, it"s hard for the kids to adjust. It siphen"s off social discontent by giving people upward mobility. This is the way the system is supposed to work: superior ability should be rewarded. Society has rewarded talented people of the working class for their hard work.

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