1.   In coastal areas social mobility led some lower castes and classes to assert themselves against headmen.

2.   Social mobility and elite circulation might increase, and the ruling group might become more heterogeneous, but government must remain oligarchic.

3.   Students were experiencing a sense of Decline, both in terms of material and social positions, a form of downward social mobility.

4.   The legal profession served as a means of upward social mobility for Burghers, Sinhalese and Tamils.

5.   There is increasing social mobility among senior white collar workers, who are able to move quite rapidly between organizations.

6.   Prior to the nineteenth century, there were almost no channels of social mobility.

7.   And there is space not only in a geographical sense, but in the sense of opportunity, of social mobility.