Download or read book Climbing Up the Social Ladder? written by Vlad Popovici and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-10-21 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social mobility is about climbing the societal ladder, or switching to a better, more promising or rewarding position. But how does this work for those already atop or very close to it? Climbing up the Social Ladder? explores instances of social mobility among different types of positional, decisional and status-defined elites in East-Central Europe during the long 19th century, at individual or group level.