Week 8 Discussion- SOC301
The following factors influence social mobility;
Motivation and hard work- people, not only desire for a better life, but they also want to improve their social status. In the social stratification, people work hard to fulfill the desire. Since social mobility causes changes in the stratification hierarchy, people are motivated to work hard to attain greater status and wealth (Rotberg, 2000).
Education-people moves from one place to another to obtain higher education to be in a position of climbing a higher social and economic ladder. Education will help individuals occupy higher paying jobs and higher social status.
Social structure-factors such as economic expansion forces people to move from one place to other to provide technical skills required for job completion. The economic expansion also forces people to find skills and training which will help gain higher economic rewards and higher position (Rotberg, 2000).
Industrialization- this is a factor that influences the social mobility in that since the period of Industrial Revolution, there were new social systems where social status was defined according to the level of skills and training. Thus, people moved to industrial towns for vocational training and search for jobs.
Modernization-the advanced technology has made people shift from the tradition occupations to great opportunities and new jobs where they apply scientific knowledge and technology. People discard the pre-modern and enter the modern society where they apply modern ideas and knowledge that help them climb a higher social and economic ladder (Rotberg, 2000).
Sin and deviance
To understand how sin and deviance are related, it is important to understand their meaning. First, sin is a state when a person does against what God calls good. On the other hand, deviance is a state where individual violates what the society calls well (Goode, 2015). The relationship comes in when good behaviors are defined to be the behaviors that conform to what the society and God defines good and, evil is what both God and society define as evil. Both sin and deviance involve a free choice to do what God and society call evil or good. However, sin and deviant differ in that on sin, a human being encounter definitional burden in trying to understand the true evil and false evil. Also, there is a burden of choice and burden of acceptability which forces the human being to make a choice and accept responsibility (Goode, 2015). On deviance, human beings can differentiate between good and evil as they act as a definitional authority. They have a definitional responsibility, decisional responsibility and admission responsibility to choose between good and evil.
References
In Goode, E. (2015). The handbook of deviance. Hoboken : Wiley-Blackwell
Rotberg, R. I. (2000). Social mobility and modernization: A Journal of interdisciplinary history reader. Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.: MIT Press.
