Intergeneration Social Mobility as a Markov Process

Intergeneration and intrageneration social mobility in Britain

Analyses of social mobility remains divided between structuralist (e.g. class structural) and individualist (e.g. status attainment) perspectives. Primarily adopted by sociologists, the former focus on the opportunity structure in which social mobility operates, while the latter, adopted by economists, on the individual attributes associated with mobility. It is becoming increasingly clear howe...

f/sla from learner perspectives: a social activity or a cognitive process

in the past couple of decades sociocultural theory of sla and its implications in efl contexts have attracted attentions of research circles worldwide and aroused some controversies. firth and wagner (1997) have questioned the principles of the cognitive view which gives importance to mental constructs in favor of sociocultural view which highlights social and contextual constructs. but if soci...

Monopoly as a Markov Process

The limit frequencies of the positions in the game of Monopoly are calculated on the basis of Markov chains. In order to make the process Markovian some minor modifications in the rules are necessary. A parameter is introduced so that by varying this parameter we can determine how distorted our mode is compared with the actual game. The convergence properties of Markov chains are so nice that i...

Seamless Mobility of Heterogeneous Networks Based on Markov Decision Process

A mobile terminal will expect a number of handoffs within its call duration. In the event of a mobile call, when a mobile node moves from one cell to another, it should connect to another access point within its range. In case there is a lack of support of its own network, it must changeover to another base station. In the event of moving on to another network, quality of service parameters nee...

Extensions of Markov Models of Social Mobility * to Heterogeneous Populations