This paper reviews recent attempts to explain the generation of ‘social mobility and inequality in a market economy. It also discusses the interaction of mobility and the distribution of wealth with the process of capital accumulation. Any attempt at explaining intergenerational mobility as well as the endogenous generation of inequality must include uncertainty in individual incomes. This basi...

Mobility modeling is an essential component of wireless and mobile networking research. It assists planning, developing and evaluating protocols and mobile systems. A simulated mobile world provides flexibility for constructing scenarios that closely resemble the real world. Our proposed mobility model emphasizes humans’ social roles when making movement decisions. Our model, the Agenda Driven ...

This paper uses a multigenerational perspective to analyze social mobility over the long-run. The data covers information on about 10,000 men who lived in Anhui Province, their wives, and their children, for seven lineages of between fourteen to twenty generations. Among the more than 40,000 individuals in the sample, the earliest recorded birth is in the year 1298, and the last recorded death ...

The aging of the population in developed and developing countries calls for special attention to improve the quality of life for older people. Meanwhile, one of the key factors influencing the quality of life of older people is their mobility. Most of the previous studies have considered the mobility of younger people while considering the aging of the population, the mobility of older people n...

Most research on social and economic mobility follows a two-generation approach, studying the correlations between the socioeconomic status of, for example, fathers and sons. Much less attention has been given to transmissions of status beyond two generations. This issue is of considerable relevance both for our understanding of societal openness and the stability of class structures. In this p...

In the sociological literature on social mobility, the long-standing convention has been to assume that intergenerational reproduction takes one of two forms: a categorical form that has parents passing on a big-class position to their children or a gradational form that has parents passing on their socioeconomic standing. These approaches ignore in their own ways the important role that occupa...

OBJECTIVE This case study describes an occupational therapy intervention to increase the self-mobility and social participation of a nursing home resident with dementia using a power wheelchair equipped with a collision-prevention system. METHOD We used an exploratory case study design. Data sources included the medical record, standardized assessments, interviews, observations of daily activ...

the world health organization quality of life-bref (whoqol-bref) has generally been used for patients, few studies in migrants who move from rural to urban within one country. many studies asserted that social isolation presents a risk to individual health. poor social networks are associated with worse qol. this study examined health-related quality of life (hrqol) and social support in new-ge...