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What does social mobility mean?

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Noun
  1. (sociology) The degree to which, in a given society, an individual's, family's, or group's social status can change throughout the course of their life through a system of social hierarchy or stratification.
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Capitalism, after all, is meant to be a fluid system allowing for social mobility.
One fairly crude estimation of social mobility can be arrived at by comparing social class of origin with that of destination.
Until recently, social mobility of members of the various religious denominations has hardly received any attention.
Many Gaelic speakers died in the Great Famine of the 1840s, and Gaelic was replaced by English, which was needed to achieve social mobility.
Both setting and hero visualize and glamorize a modernity of sophistication, leisure, social mobility, and consumption.
Perhaps the most remarkable finding thus far is the fact that these social mobility patterns were the same for all religious denominations.

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