Mobility
Discuss only 1 of the questions below
What percentage of the bottom 80% of Americans inherit $50,000 or more? How does that affect mobility?
Given what you learned about mobility, why do the top 1% rarely inherit before age 30? How does that affect mobility?
Please use material from our class to make your claims.
The distance between social location (at birth) and social destination (at death) is termed social mobility. We generally think of this as a ladder – where we hope we will increase in finance, status, and power. Please read Chapter 8 in our textbook. We will introduce you to the concept of mobility, view how much mobility exists, how it is structured. Remember, earning money is not increasing one’s social class — social class has to do with real power. Moving up the ladder is not as simple as getting a better paying job; moving up the ladder would be changing the lifestyle of you and your family for a generation.
