Gaurav KumarAIR 34 · CSE 2017 · 197 wordsTheir whole copy
Opening · a definition
social mobility is an inherent feature of stratificational systems and is a continuous process. social mobility has several implications over individual and societal levels.
INDIVIDUAL LEVEL:
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(1) According to weber social mobility is essential to maintain dynamic nature of power, status & class groups. it ensures that individual positions can change as per his work and not birth.
(2) Goldthorpe and Lockwood advocate in their work "Affluent workers" how mobility allows worker class to move up the ladder of class structure.
(3) Antony Heath & Huxley viticize that mobility is universal. They say more than 80% mobility is among immediate levels and not long term mobility, thus not serving individuals.
(4) They are supported by Leivermann who say women uses their physical beauty to move up in class structure.
SOCIETAL LEVEL
(1) Anthony Giddens advocate that mobility causes migration and frequent migration retards the development of solidarity in the society.
(2) similarly Duncan & Peter Blau talking about American occupational structure says that mobility is used as launch pad by upper middle class only causing disruption in society.
Close · a summary
thus social mobility have positive as well as negative implication but these are more of degree than of kind.