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Subject: Stratification and Diversification

Title : Social Mobility

I - Early studies of social mobility

It is believed that social mobility in industrial societies is greater than in pre-industrial societies. That is, people can progress from one social stratum to another with more ease in modern society than in agricultural society. The system of social stratification has become more open; status is more achieved rather than ascribed. It is usual to study social mobility in terms of occupational mobility. David Glass et al conducted a study of intergenerational mobility in 1949, using occupational categories as follows:

1. Professional and high administrative
2. Managerial and executive
3. Inspectional, supervisory and other non-manual (higher grade)
4. Inspectional, supervisory and other non-manual (lower grade)
5. Skilled manual and routine grades of non-manual
6. Semi-skilled manual
7. Unskilled manual
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