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Social Mobility Among Muslims: A Study of Aligarh City*

Journal: International Journal of Arts and Social Science (Vol.5, No. 6)

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Page : 09-281

Keywords : Stratification; Social Mobility; Muslims; Industrialization; westernization;

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Abstract

Social mobility studies examine the extent to which a society's member social position varies over the course of their lives or between generations. The purposive snowball sampling method has been used to collect the data from three generations of the same household. The study is to capture the intergenerational mobility among Muslims in Aligarh city and concludes that over the generation people of Aligarh city have assigned higher importance to education because of well developed education institution in the city and as a consequence people have opted for more remunerative and respected occupations with higher income.

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