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  2. Social mobility - Wikipedia

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    In the structural equation models, social status in the 1970s was the main outcome variable. ... There was social mobility in the sample: 45% of men were upwardly ...

  3. Individual mobility - Wikipedia

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    Massive amounts of GPS data describing human mobility are produced, for example, by on-board GPS devices on private vehicles. [15] [16] The GPS device automatically turns on when the vehicle starts, and the sequence of GPS points the device produces every few seconds forms a detailed mobility trajectory of the vehicle. Some recent scientific ...

  4. Horizontal mobility - Wikipedia

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    Horizontal mobility, which is a type of social mobility, refers to the change of physical space or profession without changes in the economic situation, prestige, and lifestyle of the individual, or the forward or backward movement from one similar group or status to another.

  5. Socioeconomic mobility in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Illustration from a 1916 advertisement for a vocational school in the back of a US magazine. Education has been seen as a key to socioeconomic mobility, and the advertisement appealed to Americans' belief in the possibility of self-betterment as well as threatening the consequences of downward mobility in the great income inequality existing during the Industrial Revolution.

  6. Social inequality - Wikipedia

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    Vertical is the upward or downward movement along social strata which occurs due to change of jobs or marriage. Horizontal movement along levels that are equally ranked. Intra-generational mobility is a social status change in a generation (single lifetime). For example, a person moves from a junior staff in an organization to the senior ...

  7. Overconstrained mechanism - Wikipedia

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    The crank-driven elliptic trammel is an overconstrained mechanism. Trammel of Archimedes with three sliders. In mechanical engineering, an overconstrained mechanism is a linkage that has more degrees of freedom than is predicted by the mobility formula.

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  9. Myth of meritocracy - Wikipedia

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    The minority of individuals who manage to overcome structural conditions and achieve upward class mobility are used as examples to support the idea that meritocracy exists. [ 22 ] In the United States , people of lower classes are conditioned to believe in meritocracy, despite class mobility in the country being among the lowest in ...