Hypothesis: Social Mobility
Demetria Hooks
Profess, Bridgett Hester
Sociology 100
Strayer University
June 7, 2014

Children from less wealthy families appear to support the work hard hypothesis. This is the hypothesis that asserts that hard work in school can overcome all the disadvantages associated with poverty. These are attributed to the lower economic status in people who are found to achieve a social mobility in improving their literacy, education, health status and social status (Mayer, 2012). Single- parent families are at greater risk of economic hardship than two- parent families, largely because the latter has twice the earning potential. Upper-income families can invest more in their children’s education and they may have a better understanding of what it takes to get a good education. Some of the causes of America’s mobility problems are the topics of dispute — starting with the debates over poverty, mostly in the United States they maintain a thinner safety net than other rich countries don’t, leaving more children vulnerable to debilitating hardships. The work hard hypothesis is supported by the above case. The status of women in the early nineteenth century was at once subservient and exalted. In other words, the culture womanhood requested that women become a “hostage in the home,” it was better for her “to pray than think,” submission was “perhaps the most feminine virtue” of them all, and to be domestic was, in effect, to be a proper lady (Welter 1-3). On the other hand, the woman, all may well descend into chaos and disorder. We have almost no contemporaneous accounts of the social development of women in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and only with the advent of literacy and the promulgation of material through printing can one piece together the social history of women. One may also be as puzzle as to the