socially mobile
Example Sentences
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Rereading recently the Snopes and Studs Lonigan trilogies, I was struck by their insight into the emotional debility and ruthlessness of socially mobile men.
From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2022
Some reestablished themselves outside of the inner city, following their original White clients as they became more socially mobile.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 12, 2022
Two-thirds of the most socially mobile, who had climbed the ladder from deprived backgrounds into high-status professions, were living near to their home towns.
From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2020
Not all were upwardly socially mobile, but most were.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 7, 2019
On one end of the spectrum, Kwong identified the Western-educated, socially mobile, code-switching “uptown Chinese”; on the other end were the non-English-speaking, blue-collar “downtown Chinese.”
From The New Yorker ● May 3, 2017
