Compare and Contrast Intergenerational and Intragenerational Mobility. Provide Examples

question 69

Essay

Compare and contrast intergenerational and intragenerational mobility. Provide examples.

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Definitions:

Group Polarisation

The tendency of a group to make decisions that are more extreme than the initial inclination of its members.

Groupthink

A psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people, where the desire for harmony or conformity results in an irrational or dysfunctional decision-making outcome.

Risky Shift

Tendency for group discussion to produce group decisions that are more risky than the mean of members’ pre-discussion opinions, but only if the pre-discussion mean already favoured risk.

Pre-Discussion

A phase prior to formal discussions where initial opinions or subjects may be informally exchanged.