Social Mobility

Social Mobility: A Case Study In a world where it is hard to get ahead, some people do manage to do it. Most of us spend our lives within our strata in the stratifications system because it is very difficult to move up in the world, as we know it today. While it is quite easy to move down a strata it can also require some effort to just maintain a strata. But for some …

…anything. Social mobility is often seen in today's society. With every passing day people are moving either up a strata or down a strata as a result of either positional mobility, in the case of Steve Case, or as a result of structural mobility. Either way social mobility plays an important role in our life and study of sociology because it explains how we obtained our status in society from a sociological perspective. Bibliography Newsweek