Social Mobility
DISCUSSION INSTRUCTIONS
APA SCHOLARLY JOURNAL
1)Social Mobility
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Has your family experienced significant upward or downward mobility over the past three or four generations? How do you think your values and behavior might differ had you experienced the opposite pattern of mobility? How might it have been different had your family been of a different ethnic or racial origin?
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2) Perceptions of Deviance
One of the more interesting topics of study is the area of deviance and social control. Choose a form of deviance with which you are familiar (not necessarily something you’ve done, but something someone you know did) and discuss why society views that behavior as deviant and whether perceptions of that behavior have changed over time. Explain which theory of deviance you think works best for understanding the deviant behavior you’ve chosen to discuss.
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Answer preview
Part 1- Social Mobility
Social mobility is how people manage to change positions in life within the social stratification structure. People may experience upward or downward mobility. Upward mobility is a situation where people get an upward shift in their social class that is they rise from tatters to riches. Downward mobility, on the other hand, is where people experience a degraded social class possibly due to illness or losing employment (Mitnik, et al., 2016).
My family has experienced upward mobility over the past three generations. My grandparents were hardworking people that they managed to build a family company even though they were brought up in needy families. My parents also…
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