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Discuss the nature and characteristics of social mobility. Can the nature and the rate of social mobility be treated as an index of economic development? Comment.

  • UPSC 1999
  • Stratification and Mobility

Social mobility refers to movement of people between ranked positions in society. Since industrialisation expands the range of positions, it is tempting to read mobility as a measure of economic progress. The research record supports that reading only in part: growth raises the volume of movement, but not necessarily its fairness.

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  • Nature and characteristics
  • Mobility as an index of development: the case for
  • The case against
  • Comment
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