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Are those at the top and bottom of the social class hierarchy there because they deserve to be?
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Are those at the top and bottom of the social class hierarchy there because they deserve to be? Social mobility is when people can move up or down the social class hierarchy. This allows people to improve their social class from the class they were born into and in some cases to unfortunately to also go descend from the social class that they were born into. The social class hierarchy is measured with the Registrar-General's Scale, which uses status associated with the occupation that a person performs. This type of division is known as stratification. In stratification there are two types the ascribed position and the achieved position. An ascribed position is when you are born into a certain family in the upper class were your future is already planned for you, for example Prince William has been ascribed to be king when Queen Elizabeth dies. An...
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