Question

Sarahs father is a carpenter who makes good wages in good economic times, but is unemployed when the construction industry slows to a standstill. sarah becomes a neurologist, earning $345,000 a year, and moves from the working class to the upper-middle class. between her fathers generation and her own, sarah has experienced __________ social mobility

Answer 1

Sarah has experienced UPWARD INTER-GENERATIONAL SOCIAL MOBILITY. Inter-generational social mobility is the movement experienced by family members from one level of stratification system to another from one generation to the next. The movement can be upward or downward.