Question

(b) Explores social mobility that occurs over more than one generation?

Answer 1

Social mobility refers to the shift in an individual's social status from one status to another. The shift either can be higher, lower, inter-generational or intra generational and it cannot necessarily be determined if the change is for good or bad.

Intergenerational social mobility

Intergenerational social mobility happens when the social position changes from one generation to another. The change can be upward or downward. For example : a father worked in a factory while his son received an education that allowed him to become a lawyer or doctor.

Such societal change also causes the generation to adopt a new way of living and thinking. Intergenerational mobility is affected by the differences in the parents' and their offspring's upbringing, changes in population, and changes in occupation.