Questions about the Social Mobility poster

What’s on the Social Mobility poster?

A definition and 6 facts worth remembering. Movement between class positions, measured across generations or within a career, and separable into absolute movement and relative chances of movement. Absolute: how many people ended up somewhere else.; Relative: odds of one origin versus another.; Room at the top can rise with fluidity unchanged.; Post-war growth raised absolute mobility widely.; Relative rates have proved unusually stable.; Downward mobility is studied far less than upward.; Two senses — absolute, relative; Compared via — odds ratios; More professional jobs means more people rise into them, while the advantage of start…. Educational reference. Cross-country mobility rankings are sensitive to method and data, and shift between studies.

Who is the Social Mobility poster for?

Social Mobility belongs to the Sociology section rather than to a school year, because law & society is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning stratification & inequality can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.

When should you use the Social Mobility poster?

When headline mobility figures seem to contradict lived experience. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Social Mobility belongs on the wall where that law & society work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Social Mobility?

Class Schemes, Cultural Capital at Work and Audit & Correspondence Tests sit alongside Social Mobility in the Sociology section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Class SchemesCultural Capital at WorkAudit & Correspondence Tests

Is the Social Mobility poster free to download and print?

Yes. Social Mobility downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Sociology section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence

What size does the Social Mobility poster print at?

Social Mobility is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Social Mobility loses nothing.Printing guide