Education plays a role in both social mobility and social stratification. Social mobility refers to changes in a person's social status or class, which can be horizontal between similar levels or vertical between different levels. Upward mobility means moving to a higher status, while downward is a lower status. Education promotes vertical mobility by providing qualifications for better jobs. It also affects stratification by differentiating groups based on factors like caste, class, gender and wealth. A stratified society ranks people into hierarchical layers of superiority and inferiority determined by norms. Education influences stratification by impacting these social divisions and one's position within them.

1. Education and Society
Role of Education in
Social Mobility and
Social Stratification
By
M.VIJAYALAKSHMI
Assistant Professor

2. UNIT-III
Education and Society

3. Unit – 3: Education and Society
3.1 Role of family, community and society in
promoting education.
3.2 Concept of social system and education as a
sub-system.
3.3 Role of Education in Social Mobility and
Social Stratification.
3.4 Education for the 21st Century - futuristic
perspective - concerns and issues.
3.5 Principles of education - four pillars as
envisioned by Delor's Commission.

4. UNIT-III
Education and Society
3.3 Role of Education in
Social Mobility and
Social Stratification.

5. Role of Education in
Social Mobility

6. Meaning
• Changes which are observed in
the social status, class, economic
condition and standard of life of
a person are spoken of as Social
Mobility

7. Definition
• Social mobility is meant any transition of an
individual from one position to another in a
constellation of social group and strata
- P.A.Sorokin
• Social mobility is the movement of person
from social group to social group
- William Cecil Headrick

8. Types of Social Mobility
Horizontal
Social
Mobility
Vertical
Social
Mobility

9. Horizontal Social Mobility
• When the movement of a person
occurs from one situation to
another at the same level i.e.,
within the single stratum
• There is no change in the social
status of the individual but there is
a change in his affiliations

10. According to Sorokin -
Horizontal Social Mobility Forms
• Inter-Group Mobility in Race, Sex and Age
Group
• Occupational Mobility
• Inter Religious Mobility
• Territorial Mobility
• International Mobility
• Family and Kinship Mobility
• Party Mobility etc

11. Vertical Social Mobility
• By vertical mobility meant the relations
involved in a transition of an individual
for social object from one social stratum
to another - Sorokin
• The movement of a person from one
stratum to another of the society
• There is a change in the status of the
individual

12. According to Sorokin -
Vertical Social Mobility - 2 Types
• Upward Social Mobility
(Ascending Mobility)
• Downward Social Mobility
(Descending Mobility)

13. Upward Social Mobility
(Ascending Mobility)
• It refers to the movement from lower to
higher position
• Ascending mobility means the entry of
persons from lower strata and prestige
to higher strata and prestige groups

14. Downward Social Mobility
(Descending Mobility)
• It means going down of a person from
higher position prestige and status to
lower ones
• It may occur due to political changes,
economic depression and crisis of
character etc

15. Factors Affecting Social Mobility
• Economic Prosperity
• Structure of Society
• Level of Aspiration and Achievement
• Demographic Structure
• Education
• Occupational Prestige
• Administration
• Legal and Political Factors
• Intelligence Factor

16. Education and Social Mobility
• Proper development of man
• Wholesome and balanced development
• Both formal and non-formal education brings
social mobility
• Formal education – Vertical mobility
• Education – Occupational Mobility
• Develop motivation – improvement of his social
position
• Helps in gaining higher income – means for
upward social mobility

17. • Helps to attain a high social position in the
society
• Helps in preparing one-self for self-
employment
• Medium of instruction – play a great role in
bringing about mobility
• Teacher’s Mobility through professional
growth
• Social mobility of students
• Non – formal Education

18. Role of Education
in
Social Stratification

19. Meaning
• A system which ranks the social groups
into relations of superiority and
inferiority in status on the basis of a set
of norms
• The norms of social stratification are
based on caste, class, race and ethnicity
(slavery), power, nationality etc

20. • The term stratification refers to
arrangements of layers i.e. grouping of
people into superior and inferior
positions with different access to power
and privilege
• The term ‘Stratification’ is derived from
Geology
• Geologist – layers in the earth
• Sociologist – layers in social life

21. Social Stratification refers to the
hierarchical arrangement of
groups of people in terms of
criteria like economic, wealth,
property, power, prestige and
social honour. Social
Stratification existed as far back
as human civilization itself.

22. Definition
• R.W. Murray
• Social Stratification is vertical division of
society into higher and lower social
units
• Landberg
• A stratified society is one marked by
inequality by differences among people
that are evaluated by them as being
lower and higher

23. According to Lamm
“There are a good number of
factors which give rise to social
stratification viz., age, gender,
race, ethnicity, religion,
disability, slavery, estate, class,
caste and so on”

24. If systems of stratification are
ancient and basically alike in
their main features, there must
be some common social
processes that bring such system
into being, shape them and
maintain them.

25. • Four such processes can be identified
Differentiation
Ranking
Evaluation
Rewarding

26. Characteristics
• Melvin (1953)
It is ancient
It is social, not biological
It is governed by social norms and sanctions
It is unstable because of influence of
different factors
It is connected with social institutions
It is universal and is present everywhere
It is diverse in its forms
It is consequential

27. • Social Stratification is an ongoing
process of differentiation
• Social Stratification is an
institutionalized form of social
inequality
• Social Stratification is universal

28. Major Bases of Social Stratification
• Class
• It refers to differentiation at the level of wealth.
In this sense it can be termed as economic
differentiation
• Power
• It refers to differential access to power in
society. It includes political, social and other
types of power
• Status
• It refers to distribution of prestige or social
honour

29. Education and Social Stratification
• Caste, Class and Education
• Women’s Education
• Education of the poor and slum-dwellers
• Religious groups
• Variety of languages
• Many cultures
• Excessive population
• Poverty

30. • Disorganization of the joint family
• Disorganization of values
• Martial Disorganization
• Materialism
• Politicization
• Social Disorganization
• Individual Disorganization
• Economic difficulties

31. Sources are taken from
•Slidesharenet.com
•Web sources

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