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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Types of mobility.

  • UPSC 1997
  • Stratification and Mobility

Sociologists classify mobility by direction, time span, unit, cause, standard of measurement and mode of selection. Pitirim Sorokin (Social Mobility, 1927) began the classification. Later mobility researchers such as John H. Goldthorpe and Ralph H. Turner refined it. Each type answers a different question about how open a society is.

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