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- Title
STRATEGIES FOR SOCIAL MOBILITY: A POLICY FRAMEWORK.
- Authors
Miller, S. M.; Roby, Pamela
- Abstract
This article discusses the effect of economic and social policy on social mobility. Social policy is the impetus of the study of mobility. The facts of social mobility show to what extent policy is effective. The success or failure of policy should affect explanation and explanation should guide policy. Disappointment in educational programs is leading to three levels of further policy work: educational reform, income and education and stratum mobility. One major educational reform aims at anticredentialism and the expansion of continuing or recurrent education. Three policy lines follow the perspective. One is to reduce inappropriate educational requirements for jobs so that talented persons with limited formal schooling can obtain good jobs. The second is to develop routes to higher-level jobs for those who have relatively little schooling. The third is to build and expand a system of recurrent education. In a sense, higher income is a necessary take-off stage for advancement in education. Children whose family's income has increased are more likely to do well in school even though the school has not changed. Thus, educational performance is seen as a function of family income. However, the drawback is that the relationship between education and income is not simple.
- Subjects
SOCIAL policy; SOCIAL mobility; EDUCATIONAL change; INCOME; PUBLIC welfare
- Publication
American Sociologist, 1971, Vol 6, p18
- ISSN
0003-1232
- Publication type
Article