The socio-economic stratification and education as factors of social mobility

The complex process of rapid growth and development of the newest scientific advancements, innovation,
propolsive technique and technology implicates differentiation of new basic social groups, whose main goal will be
applicative putting of knowledge in the function of production effect. This constellation of socio-economic conditions implicates a continuing need for new and highly specialized knowledge and individuals who possess this knowledge,
fighting for a higher social status, will have the opportunity to respond to the newly created economic social needs,
going in a two-way direction on the vertical social stratification scale. This paper aims, considered in the context of
the complex phenomenon of social stratification and through the prism of education as a factor of social mobility, to
determine the main transmission channels of this influence, to see the limiting factors in these processes and
appearances, their reflection and future challenges in the case of Macedonia. The used scientific methodology
includes the historical-comparative method, the statistical and technical-assisting method, analysis and the
explicative-generalizing method.
Key words: innovation, propulsive technique and technology, new social groups, knowledge production effect,
social status, economic needs, social needs