Examples of upward social mobility in the following topics:
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- The more elite colleges became increasingly exclusive and contributed relatively little to upward social mobility.
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- The more elite colleges became increasingly exclusive and contributed relatively little toward upward social mobility.
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- During the Gilded Age, many new social movements took hold in the United States.
- For women coming from poor families, these jobs meant upward social mobility, more money, and more social prestige that made them more attractive marriage partners.
- Science also played an important part in social thought as the work of Charles Darwin became popular.
- Following Darwin's idea of natural selection, English philosopher Herbert Spencer proposed the idea of social Darwinism.
- Few people, however, agreed with the social Darwinists, because they ridiculed religion and denounced philanthropy.
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- In the 20th century, the significant improvement of the standard of living of a society, and the consequent emergence of the middle class, broadly applied the term "conspicuous consumption" to the men, women, and households who possessed the discretionary income that allowed them to practice the patterns of economic consumption—of goods and services—which were motivated by the desire for prestige and the public display of social status, rather than by the intrinsic, practical utility of the goods and the services proper.
- In the 1920s, economists such as Paul Nystrom proposed that changes in the style of life, made feasible by the economics of the industrial age, had induced to the mass of society a "philosophy of futility" that would increase the consumption of goods and services as a social fashion—an activity done for its own sake.
- During this period of prosperity, many incomes doubled in a generation, described by economist Frank Levy as "upward mobility on a rocket ship. " The substantial increase in average family income within a generation resulted in millions of office and factory workers being lifted into a growing middle class, enabling them to sustain a standard of living once considered to be reserved for the wealthy.
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- During this period, many incomes doubled in a generation; a phenomenon that economist Frank Levy described as "upward mobility on a rocket ship."
- In regard to social welfare, the post-war era saw a considerable improvement in insurance for workers and their dependents against the risks of illness, as private insurance programs like Blue Cross and Blue Shield expanded.
- With the notable exception of farm and domestic workers, Social Security covered virtually all members of the labor force.
- The rapid social and technological changes brought a growing corporatization of the United States and the decline of smaller businesses, which often suffered from high post-war inflation and mounting operating costs.
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- By the late 1930s, a social crackdown on burlesque shows began their gradual downfall.
- The dime museum social trend reached its peak during the Progressive Era.
- The Irish-American ideal of transitioning from the "shanty" to the "lace curtain," though often depicted in satire, became a model of economic upward mobility for immigrant groups.
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- Social Gospel held that Christians were called to combat social ills such as injustice and poverty.
- The Woman's Christian Temperance Union mobilized Protestant women for social crusades against liquor, pornography and prostitution, and sparked the demand for woman suffrage.
- With Jane Addams's Hull House in Chicago as its center, the settlement house movement and the vocation of social work were deeply influenced by the Social Gospel.
- Denver, Colorado, was a center of Social Gospel activism.
- Most began programs for social reform, which led to ecumenical cooperation and, in 1910, in the formation of the Federal Council of Churches, although this cooperation about social issues often led to charges of socialism.
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- While Archaic hunters and gatherers were still highly mobile, individual groups started to focus on resources available locally.
- The majority of population groups at this time were still highly mobile hunter-gatherers, but now individual groups started to focus on resources available to them locally.
- The placement of artifacts and materials within an Archaic burial site indicated social differentiation based upon status in some groups.
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- The Great Depression dragged on through the early and middle 1930s, showing signs of relief later in the decade, though full recovery didn't come until the total mobilization of U.S. economic, social, and military resources for the Allied cause in World War II.
- Conservatives feared the New Deal meant socialism; Roosevelt noted privately in 1934 that the "old line press harps increasingly on state socialism and demands the return to the good old days. " However, the New Deal's record also came under attack by New Left historians in the 1960s for not attacking capitalism more vigorously, nor helping blacks achieve equality.
- The critics emphasized the absence of a philosophy of reform to explain the failure of New Dealers to attack fundamental social problems.
- As mentioned, while it is often criticized that the New Deal did not go far enough as far as social reform, the United States has a number of social welfare programs that trace their legacy to the New Deal era.
- The Social Security system is the largest and most prominent social aid program, and this was established with New Deal legislation.
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- Mobilizing Voters was the basic campaign strategy to the maximum mobilization of potential votes.
- The Democrats on the other hand did much better among Catholics and other high-church (liturgical) groups, among those who wanted minimal government, and among whites who demanded that African Americans not be granted political or social equality.