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In recent years, ______.

A) downward social mobility has decreased
B) upward social mobility has decreased and downward social mobility has increased
C) upward social mobility has increased
D) downward social mobility has decreased and upward social mobility has increased

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Compare and contrast circulation mobility and structural mobility.

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(1) Circulation mobility. Some privilege...

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What are the two basic factors that allow for more or less mobility up or down the occupational hierarchy?

Social mobility is defined as the extent to which people move up or down in the class system, in a single generation.

Men's occupational attainment, like women's, is powerfully influenced by class origins.

A common way to measure intergenerational mobility is to compare the occupations of fathers and sons.

Occupation is a convenient variable to use in sociological studies of social mobility because adults can more easily recall parental occupation than wealth or income level.

There is a high level of occupational inheritance.

Most sociological studies of social mobility have focused on ______ as opposed to other stratification outcomes such as income or wealth.

Explain why sociologists studying social mobility more commonly compare fathers and sons. What special problems arise when they study the social mobility of women?