Summary
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- Are you confused by academic jargon? - Do you know your `discourse' from your `dialectic'? - Can you tell the difference between `anomie' and `alienation'? The Social Science Jargon Buster tackles the most confusing concepts in the social sciences, brea
Social Mobility
Social Mobility
Core definition
The extent to which an individual's social status can change over a life course or between generations.
Longer explanation
How hard is it for the farmer's daughter to become a lawyer? Is a child born into a family from the lowest echelons of society tied to that fate? Can the factory-floor labourer make ...
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