UNIT-II

Topic -III
Social Mobility

Change in social status

Characteristics of industrial or urban

society
 Definition

Social mobility refers to movements up and

down in social status (Aortone and Hunt)

Social status – any change in social position.

Characteristics

Related to status of a person

Change in status of a person

Change – upward, downward, parallel

Mobility fund in urban, industrial societies

Types of Social Mobility

Sorokin:
Horizontal Social Mobility

Vertical social mobility

Horizontal mobility
Movement on the same social level

Vertical social mobility

Movement -upwards and downwards
Types of Horizontal Social Mobility
Intra Religious Mobility

Inter State Mobility

Inter Occupational Mobility

Types of Vertical Social Mobility

Ascending

Descending
Meaning of Vertical Mobility
Change in status and role- leads to change
in class position

Sources of Vertical Social Mobility - Sorokin

Army
Religious institutions
Schools
Political institutions
Wealth making organization
family
Social Mobility – Two Types – Lipset Bondix

Inter generational occupational mobility

Change in occupation within one’s lifetime

Intergenerational occupational mobility

Descending adoption of a profession by next
generation.
Division into Three Types – J.H. Kohl

Productive Mobility

Migratory Mobility

Technical Mobility
Merits of Social Mobility - Sorokin
Helps in changing racial structure

Change in human behavior and psychology

Effects in cooperation, competition,

integration, social organization
Impact on various areas - Educational,
Political, social, economic, industrial etc.,