Background and Objectives: Social mobility is the movement of an individual from one social class to another or one status to another in the society. The factors responsible for social mobility have strong economic reference, some of which are education, economic empowerment, personal competences, owning personal capital, political patronage and support from relatives/friends. It is considered to occur in capitalist societies more than others because of the open structure of capitalist societies.Nembe in Bayelsa State of Nigeria is a community where all these factors are present. We therefore aim to evaluate the rate of social mobility that has occurred as an intergenerational stud
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