SOC 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Social Mobility, Ideal Type
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For example, a woman who starts her life in poverty and grows up to be a justice of the supreme court has experienced intragenerational, or career, mobility. In an open system of stratification, we would expect to see a great deal of intragenerational or career mobility people should have opportunities to work their way up (or down). And we would also expect a great deal of intergenerational mobility if a system is truly open, where you start out (such as poor or rich) should not determine where you end up. A word of caution is in order here. Recall from chapter 8 weber"s concept of the ideal type. The ideal type of a thing is that thing considered in its pure form. As we discussed in chapter 8, the ideal-type bureaucracy is a step removed from real bureaucracies, because real bureaucracies often are not pure. The concepts of open and closed stratification systems are also ideal types.
