Intergenerational Mobility

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We all know that this country has many different cultures, classes and societies that every single one of us have a different background, level of education and different opportunities in life. Some of us must work hard for our stuff while other are born into wealthy families. Many people in the United States and in other countries like to think that since this nation is very rich, that everyone here is living a very stable life that everyone has the same opportunities but that is not always the case some people struggle to have their basic need meet. Person number one is a supervisor for an assembling company here in Milwaukee. She has always worked hard to provide for her family. While she was living in Mexico she struggles economically Their parents were consider middle class the mother was a home stay mom and didn’t had a high school diploma. Their dad didn’t really had an education since he only went to 1st grade. Both parents didn’t had a good education but their dad a very hard worker where he would often travel to fix and run threshers and tractors. He was known for working fast and always doing a good job. His family struggle sometimes but for most of the time they lived a very comfortable life they would usually go out on vacations and their kids always had what they needed. Intergenerational mobility is when there’s changes between social classes or occupations from one generation to the next. I think in the case of person one there was a bit of intergenerational mobility at the beginning of her live because she was lower class for a very period of time but then went to middle class like her parents. But for person two I think there was a bigger change she went to lower class and she wasn’t able to change her social class so she did had intergenerational mobility. Person one and person two are the same race, ethnicity and gender so I don’t think none of this had anything to do with their advantages or disadvantages. Since both of them had almost the same tools to do good economically. When it came to work opportunities person one went from general cleaning to assembly work and then to managing a small group of people in an assembly company. Person two she always stood on the same area of work either cleaning or factory

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