Exam 6: Social Mobility: The Societal Context

If technological and organizational changes occur in a way that creates jobs at a faster rate in the middle and upper levels of the occupational structure than in the lower levels, then some lower ranking sons and daughters will have the chance to climb into the new positions without displacing others. This is known as ______.

According to Chetty et al., what percentage of adults born in the 1980s earned more than their parents?

A common way to measure intergenerational mobility is to compare the occupations of fathers and their sons and daughters.

In recent years, upward social mobility has decreased and downward social mobility has increased.

Most studies of social mobility have focused on ______.

______ is the extent to which people move up or down in the class system.

How does the United States compare to other countries in terms of social mobility?

Explain what impact a father's occupation has on his son's life success.

According to the "outflow" table that starts with fathers and asks about the mobility of their sons, we learn that the higher the father's occupation level, the better the son's chances for occupational achievement.

When a society begins to modernize, what sectors begin to expand?

Circulation mobility is not at work in modern societies.

The type of social mobility where some must lose for others to gain is referred to as ______.

Total mobility is inflated by what we might call ______: If a new job is created near the top of the hierarchy, it is likely to be filled by someone from the middle, and that person's job in turn is taken by someone from below. One opening can create two or more moves in a step-by-step progression.

Studying women's mobility presents special problems.

What type of social mobility is movement up or down in the class system from one generation to the next?

Women's occupational attainment, unlike men's, is not powerfully influenced by class origins.

According to the "outflow" table that starts with fathers and asks about the mobility of their sons, we learn that the higher the father's occupation level, by a considerable margin, ______.

In the Age of Growing Inequality, families have grown increasingly dependent on women's paid labor.

The type of mobility where technological and occupational changes occur in a way that creates jobs at a faster rate in the middle and upper levels of the occupational structure than in the lower level is referred to as ______.

The American Dream is dead.