Do you comply with your social status? Social mobility is the shifting of social status, It is a change of social status relative to ones current social location within a particular society. Pitirim Sorokin shared this concept of social mobility with his book Social and Cultural Mobility, stating that there is no society that is either completely open or closed, examples he used being the class and caste systems. There are many types of social mobility including; Forms Of Vertical Social Mobility individuals and groups may improve their position in the hierarchy by moving upwards or their position might worsen and they may fall down the hierarchy, Intergenerational Social Mobility It is a change in status from that which a child began within the parents, household to that of the child upon reaching adulthood, Intra-Generational Mobility it refers to the advancement in ones social level during the course of ones lifetime,bStructural mobility Structural mobility refers to mobility that is brought a
bout by changes in stratification hierarchy itself, Individual mobility religion, level of education, skills, determination, occupation, place of residence and health determine individual mobility, Absolute Mobility measures whether and by how much living standards in a society have increased or decreased, Relative Mobility the fluidity of a society where if one person moves up in relative terms another by definition must have moved down i.e it is zero sum proposition. A person can go from an intern to the manager, those different positions accommodate different pay salaries and when you go through that change, you show social mobility. Education has the biggest impact on peoples lives, deciding social status; lower class, middle class, and upper class. The different social statuses link with how much money you make. Having a record of any type of education always ends with benefits; a better perception, position, salary, and health. Education provides positive benefits to approve social mobility.