socially mobile

The Sutton Trust says attending a selective university, like a Russell Group one, gives young people the "best chance of being socially mobile".

The Sutton Trust says attending a selective university, like a Russell Group university, gives young people the "best chance of being socially mobile".

"It is easy to disdain patriotism if someone is economically and socially mobile and derives their self-worth from a well-paid job, or if their life is made easier by cheap labour as a result of free movement."

Rereading recently the Snopes and Studs Lonigan trilogies, I was struck by their insight into the emotional debility and ruthlessness of socially mobile men.

Some reestablished themselves outside of the inner city, following their original White clients as they became more socially mobile.