Social Class and Mobility If I were a sociologist I would define social class and mobility as the vertical or horizontal movement of social class by individual or group of people. When people incline or decline an economic status in such a way that it affects their social class, they experience social mobility. There could be various reasons for upward or downward social mobility. Upward mobility means when a person moves from a lower class to upper class like we have so many examples of celebrities whom parents belong to lower or middle class but they move to an upper class, for example, Jennifer Lopez, Michael Jordan, Oprah Winfrey, etc. They all got an appreciation for rising from humble beginnings to fame and fortune. On the other hand downward mobility means if a person moves from upper class to lower class. The reason for this class mobility could be unemployment, business setback, illness or any fraud, etc. There could be chances that the same family members or diffe...
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COVID-19 AND SOCIAL DISTANCING COVID-19 COVID-19 is a viral infection that is transmitting from one person to another. The virus that causes COVID-19 is in a family of viruses called “Coronoviridae. This virus has created a pandemic situation in the whole world. Almost 213 countries and Territories around the world have been affected by this virus. This virus started in a city of China, named Wuhan in December 2019 and took millions of lives. It was a completely unknown virus with the symptoms of normal cold and flu but end up severely infecting the lungs causing death. Symptoms The very basic and mild symptoms of the virus were: Cold Flu Headache Fever But then with time, there are many other symptoms added on the list that were also acute, such as, Body aches Coughing Sneezing No sense of smell and taste Shortness of breath To date doctors and researchers couldn’t confirm that every patient will surely go through the above-men...