social mobility

In this American dream, we move where the jobs are to realize social mobility.

But as a model of economic fairness, or of the role of universities in social mobility, it is unsatisfying.

As for social mobility, Tocqueville wrote at a time when American industry was in its infancy.

Both generations of meritocracy are tied to good things: hard work, high standards, social mobility.

Given our growing social calcification, the need to boost growth and social mobility is great.

The gentry society was, therefore, a comparably stable society with little upward social mobility but with some downward mobility.

But some of the branch families, created often by the less able family members, show a tendency towards downward social mobility.

Individual freedom did not show itself only in greater social mobility.

Social mobility was most possible in the towns, where distinctions were usually only of wealth.

However, there was much social mobility between adjacent classes.