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social mobility

social mobility noun: the degree to which, in a given society, an individual's, family's, or group's social status can change throughout the course of their life through a system of social hierarchy or stratification.

Noun

social mobility

  1. The degree to which, in a given society, an individual's, family's, or group's social status can change throughout the course of their life through a system of social hierarchy or stratification.

social mobility meaning in Tamil and Vietnamese

social mobility in Tamil

சமூக இடம்பெயர்தல், சமூக இடப்பெயர்ச்சி

social mobility in Vietnamese

degree to which social status can change
di động xã hội

Questions about social mobility

What does social mobility mean?
Social mobility means the degree to which, in a given society, an individual's, family's, or group's social status can change throughout the course of their life through a system of social hierarchy or stratification.
What is social mobility in Tamil?
Social mobility in Tamil is சமூக இடம்பெயர்தல், சமூக இடப்பெயர்ச்சி. See Social mobility meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is social mobility?
Social mobility is a noun.

Words near social mobility in the dictionary

  1. social media revolution
  2. social medias
  3. social medicine
  4. social medium
  5. social mediums
  6. social mobility
  7. social movement
  8. social movements
  9. social murder
  10. social murders
  11. social network

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Adapted from Wiktionary: social mobility (page history and authors); social mobility (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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