Social mobility and psychiatric disorder: a re-evaluation and interpretation.
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."
D000850:Anomie; D003469:Culture; D005006:Ethnicity; D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D009042:Motivation; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D012306:Risk; D012649:Self Concept; D012937:Social Mobility; D012945:Social Values; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors