Social Mobility Discussion

Week 3

Preparation

  • Read this short overview of the “American Dream
  • Read Chapter 8, Stratification and Social Mobility in the US, in your text.  Your assignment must be informed by information from the chapter. No outside/web sources, please.
  • Attend the Week 3 Keiser Live! session or view the recording.
  • Watch this video on Social Mobility and the American Dream
  • Review the Purdue OWL for instructions and examples of formatting in text citations and references.  In-text citations go in the paragraph and the reference list is located after the Word Count at the end of your paper.

Assignment

  • Often the argument is made that people can be economically successful/secure in the US if they “just work hard enough.”  From what you learned in the chapter and the American Dream video, how realistic is this belief?  
  • If someone made a comment about the poor being poor because they don’t work hard enough, what would you tell her/him from the chapter and the video to give provide a more accurate understanding about success, poverty, and mobility?
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