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downward mobility
noun
- sociol the movement of an individual, social group, or class to a lower status Compare upward mobility See also horizontal mobility vertical mobility
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I like this study because it builds on research done in 2011 which looked at what factors encouraged downward mobility.
From The Daily Beast
So it would seem that President Obama and his family are experiencing downward mobility.
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For them, after all, one of the tragedies of downward mobility is the way it undermines the traditional family.
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The gentry society was, therefore, a comparably stable society with little upward social mobility but with some downward mobility.
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