Social Mobility and Psychiatric Disorder: A Re-evaluation and Interpretation
Abstract
There has been growing interest in social mobility (that is, an individual’s movement within a social system) and the problems associated with it. This paper shows that the rates of psychiatric disorder are a function of (a) social mobility, (b) direction of mobility, (c) distance moved, (d) the locus of mobility in the status hierarchy. A central concept in this discussion is the concept of “anomie.”
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