Showing papers on "Vertical mobility published in 1950"
TL;DR: In three research projects on intra-urban mobility in Omaha over a period of some twenty years, the secular trends and the relation of mobility to other social phenomena in the city were investigated.
Abstract: In three research projects on intra-urban mobility in Omaha over a period of some twenty years, the secular trends and the relation of mobility to other social phenomena in the city were investigated. The highest rate of horizontal mobility was found in the order, deteriorated areas; but, as the population movel toward the fringe of the city, more families moved into dwellings which they owned, which means an incrreasing rate of vertical mobility. This condition contributed to greater stability, less child dependency, fewer cases of old age relief, and less habitual juvenile delinquency. On the other hand, high rates of horizontal mobility were found in areas of instability, unrest, dependency, and crime.
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TL;DR: In the westward flow of migration, appreciable time intervals often separated the founding of communities in the several areas of the United States and one might anticipate, as a result, certain variations in "maturity" of institutions or in rigidity of the class system between regions.
Abstract: T HE HISTORICAL pattern of settlement of the various regions of the United States presents a number of research opportunities to students of stratification. In the westward flow of migration, appreciable time intervals often separated the founding of communities in the several areas. One might anticipate, as a result, certain variations in "maturity" of institutions or in rigidity of the class system between regions. Ideally, these variations should take the form of structural and functional gradients of many sorts. In the stratification system, for example, one might expect recency of settlement to be associated with declining intensity of class consciousness, diminishing evidence of cleavage between strata, decreasingly clear definition of the criteria of status, and rising rates of vertical social mobility. Such trends appear to be reflected widely in the attitude systems of members of this society. They are evident in the character of popular response to the exhortation, "Go West, young man," and in the common belief that respect for inherited status is lowest in the newer regions of the country. On the level of scientific generalizations they are occasionally foreshadowed in various studies in social stratification.' These gradients probably are not simple functions of distance westward from the areas of original settlement, nor of time of first settlement of the
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