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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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Perhaps the most remarkable finding thus far is the fact that these social mobility patterns were the same for all religious denominations.
Until recently, social mobility of members of the various religious denominations has hardly received any attention.
One fairly crude estimation of social mobility can be arrived at by comparing social class of origin with that of destination.
The result of this analysis indicated that the patterns of social mobility were almost identical for all three religious denominations.
Both setting and hero visualize and glamorize a modernity of sophistication, leisure, social mobility, and consumption.
The most egalitarian societies are also those with the highest level of social mobility.

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