Intergenerational Mobility Is Best Described as When

question 1

Multiple Choice

Intergenerational mobility is best described as when

• A) a person achieves a different class position than the one he or she thought they would have.
• B) a person maintains the same class position as his or her parents or grandparents.
• C) a person has a different class position from that of his or her parents or grandparents.
• D) a person achieves a different class position from his or her siblings.

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Definitions:

Waiting-list Control

A group in experimental research that does not receive the intervention during the study but is promised to receive it once the study is completed, used to control for placebo effects.

Operational Definitions

Precise descriptions of the variables used in a study, defining them in terms of the specific operations or techniques used to measure or manipulate them.

Analogue Methodology

Research methods that simulate real-life situations in a controlled environment, often used to study behaviors or phenomena that cannot be directly manipulated for ethical or practical reasons.

Internal Validity

The degree to which a study can demonstrate a causal relationship between variables, free from the contamination of other variables that might confound the results.