Mobilitas Sosial Masyarakat Nelayan di Desa Tapak Kuda Kecamatan Tanjung Pura Kabupaten Langkat

Abstract

Social Mobility is the displacement of a social class to other social class. In general, social mobility is easier happen to the sociaty who have an open stratification system. One of the sociaty that have an open stratification system is fisherman communities. Fisherman communities known is the poorest groups of sociaty compare to other subsystem sociaty. Based on these, to be seen know the social mobility that occur in fisherman communities that said to be at the lowest level of welshare. The sampling method used simple random sampling method. The sample used in this research were fisherman in Rural Tapak Kuda, District of Tanjung Pura, Langkat Regency. as much as 99 samples fisherman. Where 15 samples fisherman toke, 24 samples personal boat fisherman and 60 samples ordinary fisherman. The data used are primary data and secundary data. Data analysis method used the quantitative descriptive approach. Social mobility that occur in the fisherman communities in Rural Tapak Kuda, District of Tanjung Pura, Langkat Regency are vertical and horizontal social mobility. Social mobility occured in fisherman toke and boats fisherman is a vertical upword social mobility, while the social mobility that occurs in ordinary fisherman is horizontal social mobility.