downward mobility
vertical mobility

"You might call my style a kind of downward mobility," he says.

Unemployment is also a significant cause of downward mobility in Britain.

It has also resulted in downward mobility for a significant proportion of the working class.

Downward mobility is the hip term for what we see in their futures.

The working class is more uniform in origins than ever before because downward mobility has declined.

And the evidence that this produces downward mobility is distressingly strong.

Along with his intensely loyal family he struggles hard to achieve downward mobility.

His youth was essentially that of a middle-class kid cast into downward mobility.

The Daily News described him as "a hero of downward mobility."

In the popular imagination, the term "trailer park" suggests downward mobility, the back end of the American dream.

The Governor will evoke, not deny, the fact that we have become a people who anticipate downward mobility for our children.

Nor is there evidence that evangelicals are any more economically anxious or threatened by downward mobility than other Americans.

However, downward mobility implies a person's social status falls to a lower position in their status system.

Caught in a series of low-wage, dead-end jobs, they struggle against downward mobility.

In an era of fear about jobs and downward mobility, students are facing more pressure than ever to get designer-label college degrees.

Convulsive political change will continue, he warned, until the middle class sees an end to a spiral of downward mobility that started 15 years ago.

Or to other forms of downward mobility.

In men, however, shortness led to downward mobility.

But in the light of day the place is a life-size diorama of downward mobility.

They see a tough job market or, if they are working, the specters of downsizing and downward mobility.

He was to become one of those men, briefly, and would use his years on the factory floor to achieve moral ascendancy through downward mobility.

Both upward and downward mobility can be detected in the population by those who follow broad socio-economic trends.

Both upward or downward mobility was possible.

And with the weeks stretching ahead and the gravitational pull of downward mobility, I'm losing the will to fight it.

Understanding how so many African-American households have experienced such downward mobility seems critical to figuring out ways to help them.

I must determine if vertical mobility exists and how it is organized.

Vertical mobility: The movement of individuals and groups up or down the socioeconomic scale.

If there is no vertical mobility, we will just have to manufacture it."

There is vertical mobility in your culture in only one direction.

If he can, then there is vertical mobility.

Vertical mobility refers to a person or group's movement up or down a status hierarchy.

America, without a class system, has traditionally substituted a system of vertical mobility based for the most part on money.

Vertical mobility is facilitated by newly started PG programmes.

It is all about a total upliftment of the Indian society with a view to vertical mobility of every individual and group of people.

Science: Vertical Mobility.

We are delighted that the Czech Presidency's response to the economic crisis focuses on developing the internal labour force and promoting vertical mobility.

Vertical Mobility, New York City (1974)

While vertical mobility was not impossible, the ethnic Estonians that became citizens or landlords tended to Germanise voluntarily.

Since the sixteenth century, Colombian society has been highly stratified, with social classes generally linked to racial or wealth distinctions, and vertical mobility has been limited.

The gameplay is similar to Space Harrier, though the levels are divided in four sections and there is no vertical mobility making the game different in its own right.

Construction will provide the Army Mountain Warfare School (AMWS) with an all-weather capability to train for vertical mobility and casualty evacuation.

Structural mobility is a type of forced vertical mobility that results from a change in the distribution of statuses within a society, owing more to changes in society itself than to individual efforts.

This is commonly referred to as social mobility, yet vertical mobility can also refer to any movement up or down a hierarchy of any kind, not necessarily related to social status in the same way that social mobility is.

Galtung suggests that the individualistic survey method may well yield results that reflect conditions prevailing in one type of society only, that is societies which rate highly both on individual mobility, geographic, horizontal as well as vertical mobility, and on inner- directedness.

Instead of looking at individual relationships for evidence in his analysis, he paid attention to group fluctuations that affected large scale changes in size and social rank of groups and instead of looking at vertical mobility, he looked at mobility between generations, throughout eighteen occupational categories.

Unless a society is to utilise only a fraction of the intelligence at its disposal it must obviously in one way or another make sufficient provision for vertical mobility to ensure that capacity passes, unimpeded by vulgar irrelevancies of class or income to the type of education fitted to develop it.