Patrick graduated college and worked as a financial analyst for three years. The firm he worked for experienced a crisis due to fraudulent activity and he was laid off. He enjoyed a comfortable upper class lifestyle before he was laid off. After months of being unemployed, his house was under foreclosure and he suffered a devastating illness. Due to his special medical needs he went on government assistance and moved in with his brother's family. Patrick's shifting class position illustrates ______.
A) intragenerational mobility
B) intergenerational mobility
C) redistribution
D) meritocracy

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Patrick's shifting class position from upper class to relying on government assistance and moving in with family shows intragenerational mobility, or movement within his own lifetime.

Patrick Graduated College and Worked as a Financial Analyst for Three