{"id":19980,"date":"2024-04-07T17:01:54","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T17:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/written-assignment-social-stratification-social-mobility-and-the-american-opportunity-structure\/"},"modified":"2024-04-07T17:01:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T17:01:54","slug":"written-assignment-social-stratification-social-mobility-and-the-american-opportunity-structure","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/written-assignment-social-stratification-social-mobility-and-the-american-opportunity-structure\/","title":{"rendered":"Written Assignment: Social stratification, social mobility and the American opportunity structure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Context:<\/strong><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span>At the beginning of chapter 11 of the Ferris &amp; Stein (2023) textbook, Kerry Ferris, a college professor and one of the authors of your textbook, has graphed her occupational family tree.&nbsp; It spans three generations and is limited to parents of each generation only.&nbsp; After reading these introductory pages, create your own three-generation occupational family tree and discuss your family\u2019s experience of social mobility in the U.S.&nbsp; Remember that if either of your parents, any of your grandparents or great-grandparents immigrated to the U.S., you will need to consider social forces that impacted them prior to immigration as well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Short Paper<\/strong>:&nbsp; Address each of the questions and points below as you examine social mobility in your family.&nbsp; Do not include the diagram as part of your submission.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 25px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Summarize the occupations of your great-grandparents, grandparents, and parents, using Dr. Ferris\u2019 model and discussion as your guide.&nbsp; (my grandparents and parents are from Dominican Republic)<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">What kind of social mobility over do you see across the three generations in your family? What kind of mobility do you see?&nbsp; What evidence of mobility are you using?<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">What patterns do you see in types of occupations within and across generations in your family?<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">What explanation(s) can you offer for the variety, or lack of variety, revealed by the observable intergenerational pattern you describe? (Hint\u2014remember what C. Wright Mills said about the intersections of history and biography).&nbsp; What social forces might have contributed to your ancestors\u2019 choices?&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 25px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">What structural factors contributed to the patterns reflected by your family\u2019s social mobility?&nbsp; Do\/did they promote or impede social mobility? Are\/were these challenging to resolve or were they opportunities for advancement? &nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 25px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">What social institutions (identify one for each generation) do you see having played a role in choices made by your ancestors, and by you, that affect social mobility? Do different social institutions shape people in different ways today?&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Discuss the extent to which your family\u2019s intergenerational social mobility pattern can be explained by using Weber\u2019s theory of life chances, the theory of meritocracy, and intersectionality theory.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Key concepts:<\/strong><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span>communities, gated communities, gentrification, immigration, migration, poverty, poverty line, redlining, Section 8 housing, social forces, subculture, suburbanization, urban renewal, urbanization, white flight.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><u style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Preparation and writing guidelines<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Required reading preparation:&nbsp;<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong>Ferris &amp; Stein (2023) chapters 9-15.&nbsp; Recommended: resources on Canvas. Additional peer-reviewed\/scholarly sources as needed to support your points. Encyclopedias are<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">not<\/strong><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span>accepted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Required Format:<\/strong>&nbsp; Typewritten, double-spaced, checked for grammar and spelling.&nbsp; APA format for title page, in-text citations, and resources on final page titled References.&nbsp; Headings are optional.&nbsp; No subheadings, no abstract.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">References required<\/strong>: Textbook, scholarly information sources.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Length:<\/strong>&nbsp; 5-5 \u00bd pages&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Context:&nbsp;At the beginning of chapter 11 of the Ferris &amp; Stein (2023) textbook, Kerry Ferris, a college professor and one of the authors of your textbook, has graphed her occupational family tree.&nbsp; It spans three generations and is limited to parents of each generation only.&nbsp; After reading these introductory pages, create your own three-generation occupational [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[16],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/19980"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/19980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=19980"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=19980"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=19980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}