0 moving or able to move to a higher social class, for example by becoming richer: --
The meeting attracted upwardly mobile professional and political women.
1 someone who is upwardly mobile is moving or has moved into a higher social position, usually because they are earning more money: --
These top-of-the-range models are targeted at young upwardly mobile professionals.
It is assumed that families acted purposefully in order to cope, survive or become upwardly mobile, within the opportunities and constraints of their immediate surroundings and the larger macro-historical setting.
These contradictions are often embodied in the illnesses of young upwardly mobile members of society - often women - who have chosen to opt into the urban wage-labour economy.
They appeal as well to the upwardly mobile middle class and especially to the commercial bourgeoisie or those aspiring (often without success) to join their ranks.
Their histories show them to be conscious actors in their choices, in pursuit of education, upwardly mobile, fashion-conscious, and capable of acting independently of the wishes of their families.
She argues that dowry is often 'a social statement for the upwardly mobile classes'.
The tendency of upwardly mobile members of a downtrodden class to disassociate from that class can be found within many contexts.
Its privileges were especially felt in advancing segments of the middle classes, setting a novel agenda for upwardly mobile professionals and the younger generation.
The marriage patterns of these nine women, however, suggest that single daughters had a better chance of being upwardly mobile.
