Sociological Analysis of Stratification and Social Mobility (Case Study of Khoy City)

The concept of social mobility is one of the most important concepts that is related to a person’s social life and refers to the movement that people make by moving in different levels of the social hierarchy. Social mobility can provide conditions for better and more effective use of the talents of the members of a society and make it easier to perform social functions. Considering the importance of this concept in people’s social life, this article tries to use two different theoretical approaches including; The approach of modernization and the approach of social reproduction will study the existing dynamics in the field of stratification and social mobility in order to determine the social factors affecting social mobility in the city of Khoy. The study method in this research is quantitative and survey, and the data was collected using a questionnaire tool. The statistical population was all the household heads of Khoy city, 382 people were selected as a sample through Cochran’s formula. The sampling method is a multi-stage cluster and the data was analyzed using Spss software. The findings obtained from the linear regression test indicate that the economic capital variable of the family affects social mobility through the variables of social capital and cultural capital and work ethic. Also, the family’s cultural capital variable has an effect on social mobility through the individual’s cultural capital and work ethic. In general, the multiple regression of the research shows that the two variables of the individual’s cultural capital and the individual’s work ethic explain a total of 23% of the changes in the dependent variable. Also, of these two variables, according to the beta value of 0.29%, cultural capital has a greater impact on people’s social mobility than work ethics.