ABSTRACT
In human society the phenomenon of struggling for livelihood and social status is everywhere manifest in ecological distribution. Territorial mobility is directly related to communication and contact and is therefore closely related to social mobility. Definite changes of occupation were therefore almost always connected with changes in the social status of individuals, the reason why interoccupational mobility was considered a form of social mobility. The role of ecological mobility is consistent with that of upward social mobility. The gentry was both socially and territorially mobile. Rich people were proud of having big families and numerous sons and grandsons. If the rich families held their land too long, the consequences were that the candidates for land ownership had to wait that much longer and that the upward mobility of men was thus retarded. It is evident that upward mobility cannot be considered apart from downward mobility.
