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A team of researchers decide to study social mobility. They obtain data on respondents and their parents, gathering information on the occupational status of each generation to see if mobility has occurred. To understand the likelihood of social mobility more fully, they also ask questions about respondents' educational attainment, type of training, and the prestige of the first job that respondents had in their respective occupational field. By considering some of these intervening processes, this research team has chosen to use a(n) ________ approach to social mobility.
a) status attainment model
b) class-based
c) ascending mobility
d) vertical mobility
Answer:
This research team has chosen to use a A. status attainment model.
Explanation:
This research is, as is stated in the question, working with social mobility. Social mobility can be defined as the upward or downward movement of individuals and groups in social hierarchy. The approach they have chosen to conduct their study is based on status attainment. Status attainment sees a person's social mobility as the result of two factors: their parents' achievements and their own achievements. Notice that the researchers are working not only with data on their subjects' parents, but also on the subjects themselves - their education, jobs, how much prestige is involved in what they do, etc.
