| 单词 | downward mobility |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdownward mobility downward mobility n. movement from a higher to a lower social or professional level; loss of wealth and status.Contrasted with upward mobility which is used much more frequently; see upward mobility at upward adv. 1e. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > [noun] > social mobility social mobility1860 mobility1866 downward mobility1929 upward mobility1949 spiralism1957 1929 M. Ginsberg in Econ. Jrnl. 39 562 On the evidence before us there is very little downward mobility from I to III, and this is not in harmony with the suggestion often made that the lower classes are recruited sensibly from the failures of the upper. 1949 H. A. Murray in H. Melville Pierre Introd. p. xxxviii From wealth to penury, from leisure to toil... A sociologist might call it a tragedy of downward mobility, the exact antithesis of the basic American myth. 1993 Esquire Sept. 126/2 Some men tolerate a little downward mobility just fine—just don't settle for no mobility at all. Men treading water in their careers tend to check out earliest of all. 2008 Wall St. Jrnl. 13 June w11/1 It was the fear of downward mobility, of being cast out of the Mandarin compound..because of low test scores. < as lemmas |
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