01
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Classify the promotion specifically by its direction in the social hierarchy: a worker moves from a lower-status position to a higher-status position. Which form of mobility is this?
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5 Social Mobility and Opportunity Online Quiz Questions
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02
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Researchers find that many adults have higher real incomes than their parents, but they have not assessed whether family background predicts adult income less strongly. Which kind of mobility does this finding directly measure?
- A
Relative mobility
- B
Absolute mobility
- C
Exchange mobility
- D
Horizontal mobility
03
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A researcher wants to compare the adult income-quintile destinations of children from each parental income quintile. Which method most directly provides that information?
- A
It measures how much adult income is associated with parents' income in a single average estimate.
- B
It calculates the proportion of adults whose real income exceeds their parents' at a comparable age.
- C
It shows the shares of children from each parental group who reach each adult group.
- D
It establishes whether the society's selection decisions are morally fair.
04
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A study estimates a stronger association between parents' income and their children's adult income than an earlier study. What is the most appropriate interpretation of this result?
- A
It indicates stronger persistence of income advantage and, in this sense, lower relative mobility.
- B
It shows that every child has the same income outcome as their parents.
- C
It measures only whether average income rose between generations.
- D
It establishes that selection decisions are unfair.
05
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Select all statements supported by the material about transition tables and what they can establish.
- A
A transition table can show the share of children from a parental group who reach each adult group.
- B
A transition table by itself determines whether a society is morally fair.
- C
A full transition table can show persistence and downward movement as well as upward movement.
- D
A transition table shows every family's complete path and circumstances.
06
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Select all statements that describe equality of opportunity as distinguished in the material.
- A
Rules do not explicitly bar people from competing.
- B
People have identical family resources and educational preparation.
- C
Starting circumstances do not make people's chances substantially different.
- D
Every valued position is allocated according to inherited status.
07
True or false
1 point
A society can have substantial movement between social positions while still maintaining large gaps between rich and poor.
- A
True
- B
False
08
True or false
1 point
If a society has unequal outcomes, this alone establishes that every selection decision in it is unfair.
- A
True
- B
False
09
Written response
1 point
What is the term for movement between social positions within a single person's lifetime?
10
Written response
1 point
What kind of mobility asks how strongly people's positions depend on their family origins compared with other people's positions?
11
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1 point
When economic or occupational change shifts opportunities for many people, the resulting form of mobility is mobility.
12
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1 point
When rules do not explicitly bar people from competing, this is equality of opportunity.
13
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1 point
An economy's professional sector expands, allowing many workers to enter higher-status jobs. Which interpretation best explains the pattern?
- A
Exchange mobility, because people are changing places within a stable occupational structure.
- B
Structural mobility, because occupational change creates higher-status opportunities for many people.
- C
Horizontal mobility, because each worker must have changed to a job with comparable status.
- D
Relative mobility, because the example directly measures how strongly family origins predict destinations.
14
True or false
1 point
Even if a final selection process is fair, unequal access to the preparation and credentials needed to compete can leave substantive equality of opportunity unmet.
- A
True
- B
False
15
Open ended
1 point
Explain how social mobility differs from inequality, and use an example to show why a society can change in one without changing substantially in the other.
16
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A worker changes to a different occupation with comparable pay and prestige. Which form of social mobility does this illustrate?
- A
Vertical mobility
- B
Horizontal mobility
- C
Structural mobility
- D
Intergenerational mobility
17
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A researcher wants to use a transition table to measure one form of upward income mobility. Which statistic would do so?
- A
The share of parents who remain in the same income quintile as their children
- B
The average income of all adults in the population
- C
The share of children raised in the bottom income quintile who reach the top quintile as adults
- D
The proportion of adults whose education exceeds their parents' education
18
Written response
1 point
What term describes social mobility measured by comparing one person's position at different points in that person's lifetime?
19
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1 point
Average incomes rise, and many children earn more than their parents, but the relative advantage of children from affluent families remains largely unchanged. Which interpretation best fits these outcomes?
- A
Absolute mobility can rise even if the relative advantage associated with affluent family origins remains largely intact.
- B
Absolute mobility measures how strongly family origins determine a person's position compared with other people.
- C
Relative mobility measures whether average living standards have improved since the previous generation.
- D
If many children surpass their parents' income, relative mobility must also have increased.
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Written response
1 point
What term describes equality of opportunity that considers whether starting circumstances make people's chances genuinely comparable?
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