| The middle class is large and for its members, upward or downward social mobility is rather easy. |
| Both setting and hero visualize and glamorize a modernity of sophistication, leisure, social mobility, and consumption. |
| One fairly crude estimation of social mobility can be arrived at by comparing social class of origin with that of destination. |
| The most egalitarian societies are also those with the highest level of social mobility. |
| Perhaps the most remarkable finding thus far is the fact that these social mobility patterns were the same for all religious denominations. |
| Many Gaelic speakers died in the Great Famine of the 1840s, and Gaelic was replaced by English, which was needed to achieve social mobility. |