SOC102H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Sex Segregation, Economic Mobility, Harrison White
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*mobility (social mobility) is the movement of people in social space; study the movement of real people between imaginary locations. *greatest problems in studying mobility lies in knowing how to define and measure these imaginary locations. *defining three categories in social space: the working class, middle class, and upper class interested in the flows between these locations and the stock of people who accumulate in each class because of these flows. *some special features of mobility distinguish it from migration: migration is horizontal movement in space; mobility is vertical movement (moving up and down between what our society defines as better and worse social positions) *upward mobility = opportunities for advancement: there are many channels of upward mobility, but some types of movement are impossible; *real area of study becomes the conditions under which waiting times are shorter or longer, and whether people maintain or break the seniority rules.
