Introduction: of ruling classes and underclasses : the laws of social mobility
Social mobility by time and place
Sweden : mobility achieved?
The United States : land of opportunity
Medieval England : mobility in the feudal age
Modern England : the deep roots of the present
Testing the laws of mobility
India : caste, endogamy, and mobility
China and Taiwan : mobility after Mao
Japan and Korea : social homogeneity and mobility
Chile : mobility among the oligarchs
The law of social mobility and family dynamics
Protestants, Jews, gypsies, Muslims, and copts : exceptions to the law of mobility?
Is mobility too low? : mobility versus inequality
Escaping downward social mobility
Appendix 1: Measuring social mobility
Appendix 2: Deriving social mobility rates from surname frequencies
Appendix 3: Discovering the status of your surname lineage
Data sources for figures and tables
