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What is social mobility? Critically examine the classification of ‘closed’ and ‘open’ models of social stratification.

  • UPSC 2024
  • Stratification and Mobility

Social mobility is the movement of individuals or groups from one position to another within a system of stratification. Pitirim A. Sorokin, who founded the field with Social Mobility (1927), treated it as any shift of a person, group or value in "social space". The closed–open classification ranks whole societies by how far they permit…

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