Write short notes Interrelationship between social Mobility and Education.
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What is meant by "education and social mobility?" What is meant by education and social mobility? ‘Issues in Education’ as it relates to Education and the Social Environment, Education and social mobility, and Caribbean Education and Globalization
The phrase "education and social mobility" implies a relationship between the two processes, between the process of education and the process of "social mobility." Let's define the sociological and economics term "social mobility": social mobility is the shifting from one social-economic (socio-economic) group to another; this may be a shift from a higher to a lower socio-economic group as well as the desired shift from a lower to a higher group.
Thus social mobility is the term that defines improvement in one's earning capacity and in one's social status. Unfortunately, social mobility can go either way: one may rise to a higher earning/status level or one may fall to a lower earning/status level. The recent economic collapse, now called the Great Recession, illustrates how downward social mobility can occur: job loss and home foreclosures forced individuals and families to lower socio-economic levels because their income streams stopped and/or their debt burdens soared while they became permanently or temporarily homeless.
There are several "interventions" in socio-economic status that can induce social mobility. For upward mobility, successful education through the secondary and, optimally, at the higher education level (post-high school) is a prime intervention. In other words, if individuals in the deprivation and skilled labor worker levels can successfully complete secondary and higher education, they have accelerated opportunities to rise to middle and potentially higher socio-economic classes. Children of immigrants have routinely used this path to induce social mobility to middle and higher socio-economic classes.
Thus the phrase "education and social mobility" connotes the relationship between becoming successfully educated and rising to higher socio-economic classes.