I am studying social work and I can’t seem to understand what social mobility is.
So basically, is social mobility when there is a link between someones occupation and income and their parents occupation and income meaning if someone’s parents has low income or occupation, their children get effected and are most likely to end up the same. ???
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Social mobility is being able to move from one class to another, for example, from working class to being a business owner to being someone who lives entirely off investments, etc.
Some societies have high social mobility, for example, the US. There is little technically stopping me from moving from lower class to higher class, what with there not being any actual class system, and it being pretty much just about money and income. If I have enough so my children can go to Harvard for just me writing a check, then we’ve had social mobility to that class level.
It’s the ability to move from one class to another with ease.
A more rigid one might be where there’s familial lineage of rights and privileges different than someone else of other lineage. Like the feudal system where you were “born” into a class.
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