Sociology I · 10 marks · 150 words

How is skilling an important dimension of social mobility?

Answered by 6 toppers · CSE 2025

Syllabus: Stratification and Mobility: (a) Concepts- equality, inequality, hierarchy, exclusion, poverty and deprivation. (b) Theories of social stratification- Structural functionalist theory, Marxist theory, Weberian theory. (c) Dimensions – Social stratification of class, status groups, gender, ethnicity and race. (d) Social mobility- open and closed systems, types of mobility, sources and causes of mobility.

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RajeshwariAIR 2 · CSE 2025 · 151 wordsTheir whole copy

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Skilling is the proces of imparting and upgrading the existing skill set for better output.

Skilling forms important dimension of social mobility as it improves the individual capability.

Skilling - important dimension of social mobility

→ Skilling improves the individual potential and capability thereby fetching new employment opportunities.

This will help in intragenerational and absolute social mobility.

→ Skilling will increase the opportunities for an individual →

thereby improving the life chances as stated by Weber in his social stratification theory.

E.g. skill development programmes like PM Kaushal Vikas Yojna improves the opportunity of employment help in social mobility.

→ Skilling will lead to better economic upgradation by innovation, startup, entrepreneurship etc. which will assist in social mobility of individual & group.

Close · a summary

E.g. skill development of SHGs help in poverty alleviation and social mobility.

Skilling forms the major part & dimension of social mobility & help in bridging divide in society.

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