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What are some of the possible implications of a major slowdown in the rate of upward social mobility in the US? - djamila 1 - 11-19-2012 02:14 AM
how might this affect the core ideology in used to legitimate our system of stratification.
- simplicitus - 11-19-2012 02:22 AM
And you are asking this in the Economics section of Yahoo Answers rather than the Sociology section because?
It is clear that people hold firmly to their beliefs no matter what the data says.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/10/19/when-in-doubt-shout-–-why-shaking-someone’s-beliefs-turns-them-into-stronger-advocates/
Why, just look at all the people who believe Adam Smith and Milton Friedman were in favor of pure free markets.