Mobility Tables Pre-Survey

This web-based tutorial is designed to acquaint you with mobility tables. These are research tools which allow sociologists to study patterns of upward and downward mobility and to characterize an entire population in terms of its mobility. This tutorial is a work in progress to be included in a distance education version of Sociology 426. Before we begin, please complete the following pre-tutorial survey so that I can assess the effectiveness of this tutorial for helping students learn about mobility tables.

This is a mobility table for American men in 1973. It uses "occupation" as the measure of social location.

Father's Occupation	Son's Current Occupation
		Upper white collar	Lower white collar	Upper manual	Lower manual	Farm	Total
	Upper white collar	52.0%	16.0%	13.8%	17.1%	1.1%	18.2%
	Lower white collar	42.3%	19.7%	15.3%	21.9%	.8%	9.0%
	Upper manual	29.4%	13.0%	27.4%	29.0%	1.1%	20.5%
	Lower manual	22.5%	12.0%	23.7%	40.8%	1.0%	29.7%
	Farm	17.5%	7.8%	22.7%	37.2%	14.8%	22.6%
	Total	29.9%	12.7%	21.7%	31.5%	4.1%

Please complete the following questions about this table and then submit your answers.

A) Sons are concentrated in upper white collar and in lower manual occupations.
True False

B) Among sons born to farmer fathers, the majority moved up to non-manual jobs.
True False

C) Of the sons born to upper manual fathers, were there more upwardly mobile or downwardly mobile sons?
More upwardly mobile sons.
More downwardly mobile sons.

D) In this table, where do we look for the upwardly mobile sons? In the blue, the green, or the purple region of the table?
Blue
Green
Purple

E) Who shows more upward mobility -- the sons of lower white collar workers or the sons of farmers?
The sons of lower white collar workers
The son's of farmers

F) What is your major?

G) What is the highest level math class you have completed since high school?
100 level
200 level
300 level
400 level

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