Pros And Cons Of Social Mobility

“With hard work, talent, determination, and some luck, just about anyone can make it.”(Higginbotham, Elizabeth and Lynn 420) We, as United States citizens, have been brainwashed by this mindset which is not infallible. In view of past and present reality, one would see several tiers of immobility through mobility. Social immobility is terminology society has chosen to refer to economic stagnation. While Social Mobility would refer to a change in standard of living mainly generational ( child grows up to be richer than his parent). There exists two types of mobility upward in which the child of an uneducated worker will become skilled or downward mobility which would mean a child of a skilled working would not receive an education( Social Mobility, 179-180). …show more content…
The story chronicles every major event of his families struggle against social immobility. The book focuses mainly on his mother whom everyone in the city called Ma and his 8 siblings . Moreover , with ten mouths to feed and twenty feet to protect with shoes/ socks any single parent would be driven up the wall at the mere thought of this degree of responsibility. Regardless, it was reality for Ma. And under these circumstances, there were 10 members of the family being cramped in a very small apartment provided by the Columbia Housing Project. On top of which she generously received a small tippet of a monthly welfare check that would barely cover dinner and would exhaust itself before the check