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Upward economic mobility is difficult to attain in this country. You implicitly know this; that’s why you’ve come to college. But just being in college isn’t enough. Using various concepts and drawing on a wide range of readings we’ve talked about in class, including strength of weak ties, the importance of peers, and cultural and social capital, you will write an essay outlining ways to get ahead in college and beyond. How can you increase your chances of getting better grades? Of graduating? Of getting a better job and improving your career mobility opportunities beyond that?
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Upward economic mobility
Introduction
Socioeconomic mobility can be defined as the movement of people from one class to
another either upwards or downwards. The factors that contribute to such progress include
innovation, increase in income, changes in job, taxes, inheritance, health conditions, attending
college and marriage among others. Upward economic mobility is desired the most by almost all
the members of the society. However, it is difficult to attain as the cost of living, lack of
employment opportunities and taxes among others are always on the increase. A variety of
activity exists which can be adopted by people that desire to achieve upward economic mobility.
Such actions will help in overcoming the difficulties that hinder upward economic mobility.
Personally, my goal is to become an orthodontist after college. The discussion below explores
some of the actions I am undertaking to achieve such a goal contributing to my upward economic
mobility.
Discussion
One of the actions that I am undertaking to facilitate upward economic mobility as an
orthodontist is searching for internships and volunteer opportunities. Internships and volunteer
opportunitie...
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