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Write short note: Inter-generational mobility.

  • UPSC 2000, 1991
  • Stratification and Mobility

Inter-generational mobility is the difference between the social position of children as adults and that of their parents, as when a weaver's daughter becomes an engineer. Intra-generational mobility, by contrast, is change within one person's career. Because it shows how far birth decides destiny, inter-generational mobility is the standard sociological measure of equality of opportunity.

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