intra-generational mobility

(noun)

Change in social status over a single lifetime.

Related Terms

  • vertical mobility
  • meritocratic

Examples of intra-generational mobility in the following topics:

  • Types of Social Mobility

    • Social mobility can be vertical and horizontal, absolute and relative, and between generations.
    • An employee of a large corporation who starts in the mailroom and ends up in a high level management position demonstrates intra-generational mobility — they improve their status over their lifetime.
    • The British middle class thus experienced absolute upward mobility.
    • Other times, social mobility is intra-generational, meaning that a person changes status within their lifetime.
    • For example, Western capitalist countries are generally meritocratic.
  • Social Mobility

    • Social mobility is the movement of an individual or group from one social position to another over time.
    • Social mobility typically refers to vertical mobility, movement of individuals or groups up or down from one socio-economic level to another, often by changing jobs or marriage.
    • Nonetheless, social mobility can also refer to horizontal mobility, movement from one position to another within the same social level, as when someone changes between two equally prestigious occupations.
    • Other times, social mobility is intra-generational, meaning that a person changes status within their lifetime.
    • For example, Western capitalist countries are generally meritocratic.
  • Social Mobility

    • Social mobility is the extent to which individuals can move between social positions, either in their lifetime or between generations.
    • Social mobility typically refers to vertical mobility—movement of individuals or groups up or down from one socio-economic level to another, often by changing jobs or marriage.
    • Other times, social mobility is intra-generational, meaning that a person changes status within their lifetime.
    • For example, Western capitalist countries are generally meritocratic, in which social standing is based on such personal attributes as educational attainment, income, and occupational prestige.
    • Recent data shows that of nine developed countries, the United States and United Kingdom have the lowest intergenerational vertical social mobility, with about half of the advantages of having a parent with a high income passed on to the next generation.
  • Social Mobility in the U.S.

    • Strong social and economic mobility is considered part of American Dream, though there is relatively low social mobility in the U.S.
    • This "vertical" mobility can be the change in socioeconomic status between parents and children ("inter-generational"), or over the course of a lifetime ("intra-generational").
    • The limit to women's and minorities' upward mobility is called the glass ceiling.
    • In the United States, white males have greater social mobility than women and racial/ethnic minorities, whose mobility is limited by the glass ceiling.
    • Explain how the "glass ceiling" and other factors lower social mobility in the United States
  • The Peritoneum

    • The peritoneum, the serous membrane that forms the lining of the abdominal cavity, covers most of the intra-abdominal organs.
    • It covers most of the intra-abdominal, or coelomic, organs.
    • There are generally blood vessels, nerves, and other structures between these layers.
    • Structures that are intraperitoneal are generally mobile, while those that are retroperitoneal are relatively fixed in their location.
    • The epiploic foramen, greater sac or general cavity (red) and lesser sac, or omental bursa (blue).
  • Mobile Marketing

    • Mobile marketing is the practice of promoting brands over mobile devices such as smartphones, portable media players and tablets.
    • Marketing communications on mobile devices is generally carried out via text messages or applications.
    • Brands are able to both send and receive rich content through MMS A2P (application-to-person) mobile networks to mobile subscribers.
    • Game mobile marketing provides additional opportunities for brands looking to deliver promotional messaging within mobile games.
    • Some companies sponsor entire games to drive consumer engagement, a practice known as mobile advergaming or ad-funded mobile gaming.
  • Defining and Measuring Economic Mobility

    • Economic mobility is a measurement of how capable a participant in a system can improve (or reduce) their economic status (generally measured in monetary income).
    • This concept of economic mobility is often considered in conjunction with 'social mobility', which is the capacity for an individual to change station within a society.
    • Absolute:Similar to intergenerational mobility, absolute mobility looks at how widespread economic growth improves (or reduces) an individual or a family's income over a generational time frame.
    • Relative:Relative mobility, as the name implies, measures the mobility and economic growth of a particular person within the context of the system in which they work.
    • Education: Access to equitable and affordable education in all places worldwide is a substantial domestic and global challenge in enabling the next generation for success.
  • Understanding Apps in a Marketing Context

    • A mobile application (or mobile app) is a software application designed to run smartphones, tablet computers, and other mobile devices.
    • Sometimes they can be downloaded to less mobile computers, such as laptops or desktops.
    • Mobile apps were originally offered for general productivity and information retrieval, including email, calendar, contacts, stock market, and weather information.
    • The popularity of mobile applications has continued to rise, as their usage has become increasingly prevalent across mobile phone users.
    • Certain features make apps more favorable, such as GPS and mobile coupons.
  • Reporting Financing Activities

    • Financing activities include the inflow of cash from investors such as banks and shareholders, as well as the outflow of cash to shareholders as dividends as the company generates income.
    • Generally speaking, the rules for reporting financing activities include the following:
  • Aligning employee career development with organizational growth

    • Schweyer makes a case for improving the retention strategies within the organization because winning the internal war for talent is as critical as losing a top performer and leads to general employee dissatisfaction.
    • Baruch examines transforming models of career management, arguing that there is a general shift in career trajectories from linear to multidirectional trajectories (Transforming Careers from Linear to Multidirectional Career Paths, 2004).
    • The multidirectional career model suggests that as the individual career trajectories gain multiple direction and possibilities, workers are exposed to greater diversity of relationships, involving cross-functional, inter- and intra-organizational and multilevel encounters which transform the landscape of relationships involved in career experiences.
    • Second, Google is exploring a sabbatical program and mobility within the company for the developing and retaining talent.
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