Author Question: Compared with workers in 1970, U.S. workers today experience less upward and more downward social ... (Read 29 times)

fagboi · **on:** Jul 1, 2018

Compared with workers in 1970, U.S. workers today experience less upward and more downward social mobility. Which of these is not one of the explanations for this downward trend?

a. the U.S. has a relatively weak K-12 educational system compared with schools in Europe
b. the U.S. has no direct federal involvement in its system of higher education
c. there has been a loss of high-paying manufacturing jobs in the U.S.
d. Americans, particularly lower-income Americans, no longer believe in hard work as the basis for success
e. there is no safety net in the U.S. to protect families in case of a job loss or serious illness

Question 2

Demography that studies the population in relation to its social setting is known as ____.

a. informal demography
b. structural demography
c. ecological demography
d. social demography
e. formal demography