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Direct linkNainby, Keith; Pea, John B. – Educational Foundations, 2003
Social mobility carries with it a sense of loss. To be socially mobile is to move from one place, economically, culturally, personally, to another. One consequence of that loss, sometimes, is immobility--a paralysis brought on by the violent, forceful, uncertain rush of social mobility itself. The immobility of fear, the feeling stuck, the not…
Descriptors: Social Mobility, Working Class, Social Class, Personal Narratives
