<P> Social mobility is the movement along social strata or hierarchies by individuals, ethnic group, or nations . There is a change in literacy, income distribution, education and health status . The movement can be vertical or horizontal . Vertical is the upward or downward movement along social strata which occurs due to change of jobs or marriage . Horizontal movement along levels that are equally ranked . Intra-generational mobility is a social status change in a generation (single lifetime). For example, a person moves from a junior staff in an organization to the senior management . The absolute management movement is where a person gains better social status than their parents, and this can be due to improved security, economic development, and better education system . Relative mobility is where some individual are expected to have higher social ranks than their parents . </P> <P> Today, there is belief held by some that social inequality often creates political conflict and growing consensus that political structures determine the solution for such conflicts . Under this line of thinking, adequately designed social and political institutions are seen as ensuring the smooth functioning of economic markets such that there is political stability, which improves the long - term outlook, enhances labour and capital productivity and so stimulates economic growth . With higher economic growth, net gains are positive across all levels and political reforms are easier to sustain . This may explain why, over time, in more egalitarian societies fiscal performance is better, stimulating greater accumulation of capital and higher growth . </P> <P> Socioeconomic status (SES) is a combined total measure of a person's work experience and of an individual's or family's economic and social position in relation to others, based on income, education, and occupation . It is often used as synonymous with social class, a set of hierarchical social categories that indicate an individual's or household's relative position in a stratified matrix of social relationships . Social class is delineated by a number of variables, some of which change across time and place . For Karl Marx, there exist two major social classes with significant inequality between the two . The two are delineated by their relationship to the means of production in a given society . Those two classes are defined as the owners of the means of production and those who sell their labour to the owners of the means of production . In capitalistic societies, the two classifications represent the opposing social interests of its members, capital gain for the capitalists and good wages for the labourers, creating social conflict . </P> <P> Max Weber uses social classes to examine wealth and status . For him, social class is strongly associated with prestige and privileges . It may explain social reproduction, the tendency of social classes to remain stable across generations maintaining most of their inequalities as well . Such inequalities include differences in income, wealth, access to education, pension levels, social status, socioeconomic safety - net . In general, social class can be defined as a large category of similarly ranked people located in a hierarchy and distinguished from other large categories in the hierarchy by such traits as occupation, education, income, and wealth . </P>

Provide one example of a status that might be subject to social inequalities