socially mobile

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The Sutton Trust says attending a selective university, like a Russell Group university, gives young people the "best chance of being socially mobile".

From BBC • May 3, 2024

Rereading recently the Snopes and Studs Lonigan trilogies, I was struck by their insight into the emotional debility and ruthlessness of socially mobile men.

From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2022

Some reestablished themselves outside of the inner city, following their original White clients as they became more socially mobile.

From Washington Post • Feb. 12, 2022

Indeed, the era of social democracy helped create successive generations of individualists, including the working-class people who suddenly found themselves socially mobile during the 1950s, 60s and 70s.

From The Guardian • Sep. 21, 2017

On one end of the spectrum, Kwong identified the Western-educated, socially mobile, code-switching “uptown Chinese”; on the other end were the non-English-speaking, blue-collar “downtown Chinese.”

From The New Yorker • May 3, 2017