Article Assessment (Article Sample)

Social mobility refers to the ability of people to move from one place to another with their families from one social stratum of a family to another. Ethnicity, race, and gender are some of the factors that influence social mobility in Brazil. As a matter of fact, the mentioned factors have a direct influence on social mobility. Mobility can take place in several directions within a given society, such as Brazil. These include the vertical direction, horizontal, downward, or upward direction. Therefore, this paper will do a review the given and evaluate how the author explains the relation between causes and effect and also will carry out an analysis of the statistics presented in the given article.
The author begins by giving an abstract of the expected arguments in the article and puts across that it contains the analysis of social mobility as it occurs among generations. Besides, the abstract puts it forth to the reader that the article provides an analysis of the schooling patterns among individuals of different races, such as Brazilian, white, brown, and black men. Furthermore, the author presents a cause-effect relationship whereby he indicates that there is a close correlation between racial differences and inequalities in getting opportunities among people of low-class status in society. Again, he has indicated that among people from the upper social class, the odds of social mobility are determined and also influenced by social inequality.
In addition, the author reveals beforehand that the results indicate that stratification theories of class and races in Brazil need a rethinking so that interaction between people from different races can be observed. In his introduction, the author gives an explaination to the reader that debates about the inequalities that exist between different races and social classes have been majorly influenced by prejudice.. Also, the author presents an existing divergence of views between various commentators as to the kind of prejudice that is important between race and class.[Ribeiro, Carlos Antonio Costa. "Class, race, and social mobility in Brazil." Dados 3, no. SE (2007): 0-0.]
The author puts into consideration two critical questions in the analysis of race and social classes. In the first question, he puts forth the concern whether people belonging to different social classes and those from different skin color groups would be faced with the challenge of unequal opportunities. In the question, the author provokes readers to think about the relation between social class and skin color in the accessibility of social mobility opportunities.
The author receives credit for promising his readers that he would help in answering the questions, he puts forth to them using empirical analysis. To keep his word to readers, he utilized the power of informational databases to obtain facts, including the class of origin of an individual when they are 14 years by considering their father's occupation. Measuring and analyzing the occupation of an individual would help in classifying them to the right social class or status. In addition, to that information, their race and level of education would be recorded.