Social Mobility

Question 1

Social Justice

Answer 1

A very unequal society can be damaging in many ways eg. democracy

Question 2

Class Formation

Answer 2

Identifying with people of the same class. Category used to analyse groups

Question 3

Demographic Formation

Answer 3

Effective for class actions eg. demanding things for the whole class

Question 4

Goldthorpe 1987

Answer 4

The top of the class structure is often closed to outsiders as those at the top wish to continue being there - this leads to less social mobility

Question 5

Closure Thesis

Answer 5

There is not motivation from the top to help people other than their kin remain there. Social classes are closed - little mobility

Question 6

Social Mobility

Answer 6

the movement of individuals, families, households, or other categories of people within or between social strata in a society. It is a change in social status relative to one’s current social location within a given society.

Question 7

Buffer-Zone Thesis

Answer 7

The manual / non-manual divide. Any mobility crossing this line will be between the top layer of the manual occupations and the bottom layer of the non-manual occupations

Question 8

Counter balance thesis

Answer 8

Educational expansion and reform have led to some increased mobility chances. Offset by an overall decrease in mobility over lifetime.

Question 9

Oxford Class Schema

Answer 9

Captures the salient and long-term difference in economic security, economics prospects, interests, employment

Question 10

Mobility table

Answer 10

The pace of change in occupational structure has a lot of bearing on social mobility

Question 11

Structural mobility

Answer 11

attributable to changes in society as a whole, not individual changes

Question 12

Circulation Mobility

Answer 12

the class structure remains stable while individuals rise or fall within it

Question 13

Inflow rate

Answer 13

the recruitment pattern not each class destination: given that you are in a particular class destination where do you come from

Question 14

Outflow Rate

Answer 14

shows the destination of people from each social origin: given hat you are from a particular class origin where do you end up

Question 15

Absolute Mobility

Answer 15

measures whether (and by how much) living standards in a society have increased; this is often measured by what percentage of people have higher incomes than their parents.

Question 16

Relative Mobility

Answer 16

how likely children are to move from their parents’ place in the social hierarchy

Question 17

Odds Ratio

Answer 17

This shows the odds of someone from a particular class origin ending up in another. A ratio of 1 is one of equal opportunity. The further from 1 the more unequal the relative mobility chance

Question 18

Mobility Volume

Answer 18

High volume of mobility can coexist with highly unequal relative mobility chances

Question 19

Inflow mobility rate

Answer 19

how you recruit people into that demographic