social mobility

[ soh-shuhl moh-bil-i-tee ]

/ ˈsoʊ ʃəl moʊˈbɪl ɪ ti /

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noun

Sociology. the movement of people in a population, as from place to place, from job to job, or from one social class or level to another.

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Compare horizontal mobility, vertical mobility.

Origin of social mobility

First recorded in 1925–30

Words nearby social mobility

social market, social media, social media intelligence, social media optimization, social-minded, social mobility, social movement, social network, social networking, social networking site, social organization

How to use social mobility in a sentence

While all generations have been affected by the crisis, youth face exceptional risks with new barriers to education and social mobility, as well as mental health strain.
After the COVID-19 Pandemic We Need to Build More Resilient Countries|Saadia Zahidi|January 19, 2021|Time
The consumer dissatisfaction with tech giants dovetails with China’s growing wealth gap and an increasing lack of social mobility.
China’s consumers are turning against the homegrown Big Tech giants they once revered|Grady McGregor|January 16, 2021|Fortune
The Dream in question isn’t the mythological notion that upward social mobility is within reach for all hardworking Americans.
The death of the department store and the American middle class|Jason Del Rey|November 30, 2020|Vox
A social mobility tool aimed at lifting up socioeconomically disadvantaged communities, this program targets students from kindergarten through 12th grade and offers modules in areas ranging from investment basics to budgeting and banking.
Will the Pandemic Teach American Kids Financial Literacy?|Charu Kasturi|November 12, 2020|Ozy

Income inequality decreased, but also social mobility increased.
Does Anyone Really Know What Socialism Is? (Ep. 408)|Stephen J. Dubner|March 5, 2020|Freakonomics
He finished second in 2008 behind John McCain, and maintains a reservoir of good will among Republican social conservatives.
Can Huckabee Convert the GOP’s Moneymen?|Lloyd Green|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Where the force generating those threats is a widespread, self-sustaining, and virulent social movement?
Cover-Ups and Concern Trolls: Actually, It's About Ethics in Suicide Journalism|Arthur Chu|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The TVA, a federally owned and chartered electric power provider, is a New Deal legacy just like Social Security.
Steve Scalise Shows There’s a Fine Line Between Confederate & Southern|Lloyd Green|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Social media forces us to not only be vulnerable for our partner but for the whole world.
Random Hook-Ups or Dry Spells: Why Millennials Flunk College Dating|Ellie Schaack|January 1, 2015|DAILY BEAST
One blames black Americans as a race; the other, racism as a social structure.
No Gods, No Cops, No Masters|James Poulos|January 1, 2015|DAILY BEAST
All over the world the just claims of organized labor are intermingled with the underground conspiracy of social revolution.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
To others the fierce desire for social justice obliterates all fear of a general catastrophe.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
And our views of poverty and social betterment, or what is possible and what is not, are still largely conditioned by it.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
Our social life is aimless without it, we are a crowd without a common understanding.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
And an educational movement is more tenacious than any other sort of social or political movement whatever.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells