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Social mobility can be described as the shifting of people from one social status to another within a given society. This movement can be either upward or downward. Generally, societies are organized by social class allowing greater social mobility (Tellioğlu & Strohmeier, 2019). Social mobility depends upon multiple factors like gender, urbanization and industrialization, means of transportation and communication and education, etc.
Specifically talking about education, it plays a vital role in social mobility and is valued a lot in modern societies. Education helps an individual to learn new skills that are necessary to get a better job that will in turn benefit in achieving higher social status because the high level of education directly corresponds to high salaries (Nazimuddin, 2014). However, this is not always true as the research shows that children of wealthy people will get better opportunities than children of people with average or low income. Hence education does improve social mobility, yet it has few limitations as well.
In both developing and developed countries education is considered as a key to get out of poverty. Educational credentials are required to access a high-status job. Typically, in developing countries, there is a huge demand for highly educated and skilled labor as a result regardless of a person’s social background companies are more interested in the educational credentials of an individual. This is the reason that helps in social mobility.
However, education sometimes hinders social mobility as most of the people living in extreme poverty are not able to access education. The division of public and private schools also acts as a barrier to social mobility as children in private schools are given more opportunities to flourish rather than public school children. This is the reason that high-income families have a choice and they let their children study in private schools while on the other hand low-income families do not have a choice and they have to let their children study in public schools CITATION God15 \l 1033 (Godsey, 2015). This income inequality is of the main reason that children are not having access to better education. Thus, there is a need to maintain a balanced system that provides children with equal opportunities to increase social mobility.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY Godsey, M. (2015, June 15). The inequality in public schools. 1-8.
Nazimuddin, S. K. (2014). Social mobility and role of education in promoting social mobility. International Journal of Scientific Engineering and Research, 1-4.
Tellioğlu, H., Berger, M., Kirchberger, C., & Strohmeier, F. (2019, June). Mobility Transformation: What does mobility mean in the future?. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Communities & Technologies-Transforming Communities (pp. 349-353). ACM.
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