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What are the key factors influencing social mobility? Which is most important?In what ways can parents’ social position help shape the opportunities, or alternately the lack of opportunities, for their children? What role does the educational system play in facilitating or impeding social mobility?


How does American society compare to other advanced industrial societies in the degree to which it facilitates intergenerational mobility? What about in the degree to which it allows for or prevents extensive child poverty? What is the relationship between these two outcomes?