Social mobility only really seems to be a middle-class value, if we consider social mobility in terms of moving up in classes.
Upper class people are clearly concerned with remaining upper class
Working class people focus much more on money. This is basically what shows like the Beverly Hillbillies and Duck Dynasty are about; they don’t do different things, just pump money into their current lifestyle.
Poor people are mostly too preoccupied with trying to get through the short term to consider mobility explicitly. Most of the ones I was close with had some notion that it wasn’t for people like them if they thought about it at all, which I found kind of surprising. All of them were from rural areas; I haven’t met anyone from an urban area who expressed that feeling (maybe because they encounter high class people?).
Social mobility only really seems to be a middle-class value, if we consider social mobility in terms of moving up in classes.
Upper class people are clearly concerned with remaining upper class
Working class people focus much more on money. This is basically what shows like the Beverly Hillbillies and Duck Dynasty are about; they don’t do different things, just pump money into their current lifestyle.
Poor people are mostly too preoccupied with trying to get through the short term to consider mobility explicitly. Most of the ones I was close with had some notion that it wasn’t for people like them if they thought about it at all, which I found kind of surprising. All of them were from rural areas; I haven’t met anyone from an urban area who expressed that feeling (maybe because they encounter high class people?).