What is social mobility? How does intragenerational mobility differ from intergenerational mobility?

What will be an ideal response?


Answers will vary. Social mobility is movement from one social class to another. Intragenerational mobility is movement up or down a social class over one's lifetime. Intergenerational mobility is movement up or down a social class over two or more generations. Intragenerational and intergenerational mobility can be downward or upward.

Sociology

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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. A primitive tribe that cultivates the soil by hand has much more culture than a modern, computerized society. 2. Kissing is an example of a cultural universal. 3. Funerals are found in every culture and thus are a cultural universal. 4. Viewing people's behavior from the perspective of their own culture is known as cultural relativism. 5. Sociobiology is founded on Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

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Employed mothers have significantly less stress than both employed nonmothers and nonemployed mothers when they

a. have average or high control over their jobs. b. have parents who live in close proximity. c. work in nontraditional occupations. d. work part time rather than full time.

Sociology

__________ refer(s) to information transmitted to the system about whether established interactional patterns require alteration

a. Morphostasis b. Stress c. Adaptability d. Strategies

Sociology

What is a reference group?

What will be an ideal response?

Sociology