Yaksh ChaudharyAIR 6 · CSE 2021 · 216 wordsTheir whole copy
Opening · a definition
Social mobility refers to the movement of individual or groups from one strata of hierarchy to the other. It can be downward or upward.
Body · points
Implications on Individuals
- Improved status of individuals. For ex- with economic empowerment of women, their say in domestic decisions has increased.
- with individual social mobility, the status of women in family has improved. Wilkinson and Pickett calls it "symmetrical family".
- The individual mobility
- Goldthorpe argued that affluent workers are emerging due to economic mobility of workers.
- The exclusion and deprivation of marginalised people reduces by mobility.
Implications on societal level
- MN srinivas in his village study of Rampura showed that how social mobility led to emergence of dominant castes.
- Andre Beteille argues that with social mobility, the congruence between the caste, status, party and class has been removed. Now caste, class & party function in different spheres.
- weber argues that middle classes have emerged in stratification system due to modernisation and industrialisation.
- With social mobility, disadvantaged sections of society assert their rights and make demands to the state. It also leads to social movements. ex - dalit identity in India.
Close · a summary
Hence social mobility leads to changes in the stratification system and have implications on both individuals and society as a whole.