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Arguments Of Upward Mobility

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Upward mobility comes with a lot of social pressure, especially from a higher class that does not pertain to you initially. If you choose to assimilate into an Elite identity, you are revoking your roots. For example in Robert Grandfields article, “Making it by Faking it” he presents us with research on middle class students entering an ivy league University. The majority of the first year working class students did not feel like they belonged. A man interviewed stated he displayed his working class status in this elite environment by wearing, "work shirts or old flannel shirts and blue years everyday." evidently making him ostracised by his peers who in reality might hold the same ideological convictions according to Grandfield (Grandfield

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