Topic # 2: Social Mobility

_____ is the movement of an individual or a group within a stratification system that changes the individual's or group's status in society. It focuses on people's movement within stratification systems. 

• Social Movement

• Social Mobility

_____ is the movement of individuals or groups from a lower to a higher status in a social stratification system.

• Vertical

• Horizontal

_____ mobility may come about because of changing one's occupation, marrying into a particular family, and others.

• Vertical

• Horizontal

Weber defined it as the ability to attain goals, control events, and maintain influence over others- even in the face of opposition

• Power

• Prestige

• Esteem

• Wealth

• Social Honor

The approval and respect an individual or group receives from other members of society

• Power

• Prestige

• Esteem

• Wealth

• Social Honor

Appreciation, and respect a person wins in his/her daily interpersonal relationships

• Power

• Prestige

• Esteem

• Wealth

• Social Honor

The honor that is associated with specific statuses in society

• Power

• Prestige

• Esteem

• Wealth

• Social Honor

Total economic assets of the individual or a family 

• Power

• Prestige

• Esteem

• Wealth

• Social Honor

• Sociologists also refer to this as physical mobility. It is the movement of people from one geographical spot to another, a phenomenon of increasing frequency in modern society.

• Geographical Migration

• Geographical Mobility

Free movement of people from one geographical area to another

• Voluntary Migration

• Forced Migration