Social Mobility

Which of the following is an example of vertical mobility?

• a trail lawyer becomes a tax lawyer

• a machine operator is promoted to department supervisor

• the head of marketing becomes the new head of accounting

• a Senator becomes a member of the House of Representatives

Which of the following is an example fo horizontal mobility?

• the head of marketing becomes the new head of accounting

• a Senator becomes a member of the House of Representatives

• a former tax lawyer now works as a paralegal

• a machine operator is promoted to department supervison

John is a manager at an auto manufacturing plant. his family has been working with the copay for years. His father, for example, use to work in fabrication (assembly), and his grandfather was employed as a loader who moved materials into the factory. What type of mobility does this scenario describe?

• social stratification

• horizontal mobility

• intragenerational mobility

• intergenerational mobility

A change in the position with the social hierarchy

• social stratification

• social media

• social promotion

• social mobility

In this formal system, stratification was based on land ownership. The nobility controlled the land and the peasants worked it.

• caste system

• social mobility

• agricultural revolution

• estate system

This formal system creates unequal groups based on their ascribed status and was prevalent in India.

• social system

• caste system

• Hindu system

• estate system