Question

If 100 working-class people move upward on the class ladder and, at the same time, 100 middle-class people move downward, sociologists would consider this an example of ________ mobility.

exchange

Answer 1

Exchange

Step-by-step explanation:

In sociology, the term exchange mobility is based on the idea that classes in a society maintain an static number of people. In other words, it would be expected that if a number of people move upward on the class ladder, then the same number of people would move downward and therefore, the classes would maintain the same number of people.

In this example, 100 working-class people move upward on the class ladder and, at the same time, 100 middle-class people move downward. We can see that the same amount of people moving upward is moving downward so both classes would maintain the same number of people and this would be an example of exchange mobility.