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Write short note: Vertical social mobility.

  • UPSC 2006
  • Stratification and Mobility

Vertical social mobility is movement up or down a hierarchy of wealth, power or prestige: a rise or fall in rank, not just a change of position. Pitirim Sorokin (Social Mobility, 1927) called these ascending and descending currents and treated them as the real test of how open a stratification system is.

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