A women who was born and raised in a poor family does well in school and gets a well-paid job as a computer engineer right after college. This is an example of

a. horizontal mobility
b. intergenerational mobility
c. intragenerational mobility
d. institutional mobility


Ans: b. intergenerational mobility

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