History A-Level
Class mobility
What Class mobility means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Class mobility
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
The shifting of social groups as the gentry expanded and diversified and urbanisation fostered professional and merchant classes whose wealth and influence grew.
Topics that use Class mobility
- Social and intellectual challenge, 1625–88 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Empiricism and scientific progress
- Gender and law
- Poverty and social policy
- Radicalism and dissent
- Rural economy
- Secularisation and religious pluralism
- Social hierarchy
- Urbanisation
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