Social Stratification
Social Mobility refers to the extent by which individuals can move out of the stratum into which they are born
- A Caste System: a closed system of stratification
- mobility is limited to your birth
- occupation decided at birth
- Class System: A more open system
- upper, upper-middle, lower-middle, lower
- Mobility still depends on the country (e.g., low mobility in the U.K., Italy; higher in the U.S.)
- Implications for relationships between management and labor.