0 the ability to move from one level of society to another --
1 the ability to move from one level of society to another --
Individual social mobility was constant and frankly recognised.
His description of ' middling ' values is highly prescriptive, static, and defined against aspects of social mobility that he regards as inimical to these values.
There was, however, also some upward social mobility.
Within the household system there was little opportunity for social mobility.
The absence of family ties sometimes leads to downward social mobility.
The number of veterans who succeeded in gaining some degree of economic and social mobility is difficult to determine.
Many of these respondents understood their experience of social mobility as ' being needed ' and found meaning in their social usefulness.
The likely motives were the desire to preserve and perpetuate the house name and maybe only a limited interest in social mobility.