Status Status Attainment Attainment and Social and Social Mobility Mobility Main Question: Main Question: How And To What Degree Do The How And To What Degree Do The Circumstances Of Birth Affect Circumstances Of Birth Affect Your Later Status? Your Later Status? Ascriptive/Ascribed Ascriptive/Ascribed Characteristics Characteristics Achieved Characteristics Achieved Characteristics
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Status Status Attainment and Attainment and Social MobilitySocial MobilityMain Question:Main Question:
How And To What Degree Do The How And To What Degree Do The Circumstances Of Birth Affect Your Circumstances Of Birth Affect Your
Later Status?Later Status?Ascriptive/Ascribed Ascriptive/Ascribed
Dr. Pitt’s College Major Clusters Prestige Dr. Pitt’s College Major Clusters Prestige RankingsRankings
Number In Front Is Students’ “My” EvaluationNumber In Front Is Students’ “My” EvaluationNumber In Back Is Students’ “Society’s” EvaluationNumber In Back Is Students’ “Society’s” Evaluation
Contest MobilityContest MobilityContest MobilityContest Mobility• Elite status is the prize and you get Elite status is the prize and you get
there through there through MERITMERIT• Final Award is delayed as long as Final Award is delayed as long as
possiblepossibleSponsored Sponsored MobilityMobilitySponsored Sponsored MobilityMobility• Elite status is the prize and you get Elite status is the prize and you get there through there through
RECOMMENDATION of other elitesRECOMMENDATION of other elites• Recruits chosen early in order to control Recruits chosen early in order to control
their their trainingtraining
Sponsored & Contest Sponsored & Contest MobilityMobility“Contest” System “Sponsored” System
SYSTEM IS BASED ON Achievement Ascription
ELITE STATUS IS Earned Conferred
SELECTION FOR ELITE STATUS IS
Delayed as long as possible to permit a
fair race
Done “as early as practicable” to ensure control over training
SOCIAL CONTROL Futuristic orientation, norm of ambition
Socialization to appropriate roles, restricted access to
elite skills/customs
VALUE OF EDUCATION Schooling valued as a means of getting ahead
Schooling valued for cultivation of elite culture
Questions To ConsiderQuestions To ConsiderAverage Salaries, Full time Workers (CPS 2013)
All
WorkersHS
DiplomaSome
CollegeAA
OnlyBA
Only
White 63,601 44,680 50,694 50,744 73,434
Asian 68,017 36,631 40,415 53,055 71,088
Latino 40,066 34,472 40,650 42,061 59,258
Black 44,438 34,789 39,495 41,014 55,185
Why are there racial differences?Why are there racial differences?
Do we really want to get rid of ascription?Do we really want to get rid of ascription?
Are diplomas/degrees just weed out Are diplomas/degrees just weed out mechanisms?mechanisms?
You “must” be 18 to take the GED. Why?You “must” be 18 to take the GED. Why?
Why are there racial differences?Why are there racial differences?
Do we really want to get rid of ascription?Do we really want to get rid of ascription?
Are diplomas/degrees just weed out Are diplomas/degrees just weed out mechanisms?mechanisms?
You “must” be 18 to take the GED. Why?You “must” be 18 to take the GED. Why?