Social Mobility From Rural to Urban Areas: Historical Analysis of Population of Southwestern Saudi Arabia-Its Motive and Intent From 1960-1980

Abstract

Most of the developing countries in the world have witnessed a rapid movement from rural to urban areas where the process of social changes is more available.  . One of  the important problems of internal migration is the decrease of opportunity of social and economic change in rural areas. Saudi Arabian society can be classified as an aggregation of modes of production that shape the social formation as well as its economics and social relations. This coexistence of these contradictory modes of production is known as Asian mode of production. The Saudi economic structure has been shaped up by the oil-based economy.

The purpose of this paper is to provide a a historical  analysis and interpretation of human social mobility . I contend that inequality in development plans between rural and urban areas one of the forcing drive of rural urban  migration.