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  2. Horizontal mobility - Wikipedia

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    The vertical or horizontal social mobility that a person shows in his own life is called intragenerational mobility. [7] According to Weber , when mobility changes, up or down, class conflicts lose their central importance and group solidarity gives way to competition. [ 8 ]

  3. Social mobility - Wikipedia

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    Illustration from a 1916 advertisement for a vocational school in the back of a US magazine. Education has been seen as a key to social mobility and the advertisement appealed to Americans' belief in the possibility of self-betterment as well as threatening the consequences of downward mobility in the great income inequality existing during the Industrial Revolution.

  4. Open class system - Wikipedia

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    An open class system is the stratification that facilitates social mobility, with individual achievement and personal merit determining social rank.The hierarchical social status of a person is achieved through their effort.

  5. Social stratification - Wikipedia

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    Social mobility is the movement of individuals, social groups or categories of people between the layers or within a stratification system. This movement can be intragenerational or intergenerational. Such mobility is sometimes used to classify different systems of social stratification.

  6. Social inequality - Wikipedia

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    Social mobility is the movement along social strata or hierarchies by individuals, ethnic group, or nations. There is a change in literacy, income distribution, education and health status. The movement can be vertical or horizontal. Vertical is the upward or downward movement along social strata which occurs due to change of jobs or marriage.

  7. Social geometry - Wikipedia

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    While social geometry might entail other elements as well (or instead), Black's own explanation of the model includes five variable aspects: horizontal/morphological (the extent and frequency of interaction among participants), vertical (the unequal distribution of resources), corporate (the degree of organization, or of integration of individuals into organizations), cultural (the amount and ...

  8. Socioeconomic mobility in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Illustration from a 1916 advertisement for a vocational school in the back of a US magazine. Education has been seen as a key to socioeconomic mobility, and the advertisement appealed to Americans' belief in the possibility of self-betterment as well as threatening the consequences of downward mobility in the great income inequality existing during the Industrial Revolution.

  9. Horizontal inequality - Wikipedia

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    Horizontal inequality is the inequality—economical, social or other—that does not follow from a difference in an inherent quality such as intelligence, attractiveness or skills for people or profitability for corporations. In sociology, this is particularly applicable to forced inequality between different subcultures living in the same ...