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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Social Mobility.

  • UPSC 1985
  • Stratification and Mobility

Social mobility is the movement of individuals, families or groups from one social position to another within a system of stratification. Pitirim Sorokin wrote the founding study, Social Mobility (1927). Mobility is the moving counterpart of stratification: stratification describes the layers of a society, and mobility describes how people move between them.

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  • Open and closed systems
  • Main types
  • Channels and causes
  • Theoretical readings
  • Mobility in India
  • Consequences
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