Practice question · Sort into groups
Structural (absolute) mobility or relative mobility (fluidity)? Sort each finding.
Groups: Structural mobility · Relative mobility
- Farmhands’ children became clerks as agriculture shrank
- Given the same economy, origins predict destinations less than before
- The top-vs-bottom odds ratio fell from 20 to 8
- The service boom lifted a whole generation into offices
Hints
- One measure reflects the changing shape of the occupational structure.
- Only the other measures whether positions are genuinely open.
Show the answer
Structural mobility: Farmhands’ children became clerks as agriculture shrank, The service boom lifted a whole generation into offices
Relative mobility: Given the same economy, origins predict destinations less than before, The top-vs-bottom odds ratio fell from 20 to 8
Why
Structural mobility is the tide; relative mobility is whether you can swim against it. Only the second measures openness.
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