Economic Mobility and Social Stratification

Since 1929 the economic mobility of selected occupations in the income deciles, based on their average annual incomes, has remained relatively stable. The highest income decile is still composed primarily of professionals, managers, and businessmen, though a larger proportion of clerical workers can today be found in the lowest-income categories. Because of the wide inequalities in income between the deciles, symbols of economic status havew not been equitably distributed. Thus the widely held image of America as an increasingly middle-class society based on a general distribution of high economic status symbols finds little justification

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