socially mobile
Moving between strata
Socially mobile describes someone able to move between social classes or economic strata, typically upward: College was supposed to make us socially mobile.
The term appears in discussions of opportunity, inequality, and class structure.
A socially mobile society is one where birth doesn't determine destiny—where advancement through education, work, or talent remains possible.
- upwardlyToward a higher position
- ascendancyDominant power or influence
- climbing the ladderProgressing through hierarchy
- stepping stoneIntermediate stage toward goal
- promotionRank increase or publicity
moving up · advancement · suit · cultural assimilation · systemic inequality · integrate · scholarships · income inequality · bootstrapping · born into · new money · white collar · glass ceiling · financial independence · socioeconomic · credential inflation · poverty alleviation · ladder
socially mobilelocked in position
socially mobilehereditary
Passed through generations
feudal · stratified · aristocratic · untouchable · entrenched
social, socially, sociable, sociably, sociability, society, societies, societal, socialize