Autobiography and social climbing by Peter Alheit

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Winners, Socially Displaced and Cinderellas: Representations of Race and Social Climbing in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century by Pietro Pisano

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Genetic and linguistic non-correspondence suggests evidence for collective social climbing in the Kol tribe of South Asia by Anshika Srivastava, Prajjval Pratap Singh, Audditiya Bandopadhyay, Pooja Singh, Debashruti Das, Rakesh Tamang, Akhilesh Kumar Chaubey, Pankaj Shrivastava, George van Driem, Gyaneshwer Chaubey

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Paris, the End of the Party in Alberto Blest Gana’s Los Trasplantados by Kaempfer Alvaro

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. by María Olga Samamé

“…This work explores the theme of Arab migration in Chile in the context of disaffiliation, the incorporation to a different reality, social climbing, social sanctioning and the defense of the conservation of a part of the national identity. …”
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Donna, che fosti tra le donne un Sole»: sui tentativi poetici giovanili di Paolo Paruta (metà XVI sec.) by Marco Giani

“…Writing those juvenile poems and making them circulate among the Venetian literary circles (such as Domenico Venier’s), Paruta was looking not only for artistic approval, but also for social visibility: the canzone and the somnets were part of his wider strategy for social climbing inside Venetian patrician ruling class.…”
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Tra ambizione e carriera. La professione di advocatus nello Stato della Chiesa tra XVI e XVIII secolo by Maria Macchi

“…It is possible not only to study singular professional biography but also to reconstruct social- climbing instruments used by young lawyers to introduce themselves in the Papal court. …”
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BILLION DOLLAR WHALE : THE MAN WHO FOOLED WALL STREET, HOLLYWOOD, and the WORLD / by Wright, Tom, author 626110, Hope, Bradley, author 626113

“…If Jho Low appeared shy on the surface, behind the scenes he was a big-talking, social-climbing huckster. Barely out of college, Low persuaded the prime minister of Malaysia, Najib Razak, to create an investment fund, known as 1MDB. …”

Un Grec au service de Sa Majesté by Mathieu Couderc

“…The purpose of this article is to explore foreignness as a condition of social climbing in the French 16th century. Demetrios Palaiologos was a Greek interpreter, merchant and officer who served King Francis I of France between 1533 and 1560. …”
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Biografi Rakyat Kecil, Sutikno: 1980-2018 Pendekatan Sejarah Post-Strukturalisme by Akhmad Khoirul Munir, I Nyoman Wijaya, I Nyoman Sukiada

“…By wearing a method/methodology Genealogi and theories post-strukturlism, especially the undirected Structural Generative Pierre Bourdieu and the Discourse-(Knowledge-Power )-Discipline Michel Foucault as a thought, the three had obtained. drawing conclusions. 1) With hard work and discipline, patient and keep trying not to despair Sutikno managed to achieve success even though through various obstacles and problems. 2) Factors behind the success of Sutikno mainly came from habitus and discipline and social private ownership of capital as a replacement for other capital. 3) Implication after sutikno pillars of success, that is a change from a social lower middle middle-class process for social climbed the stairs, characterized by differentiation consumption of goods that more luxurious and diverse than ever before.…”
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‘Ow Cockney is Beckham Twenty Years On? An Investigation into H-dropping and T-glottaling by Sofia Dahou, Jasmine Hamlin

“…As t-glottaling and h-dropping are stigmatised forms which are commonly associated with a working-class background, we believed that Beckham would go from using a high rate of these variants in his teenage years, due to his lower socioeconomic background, to producing standard /t/ and /h/ more frequently, reflecting his dramatic upward social climb. Due to his rise to fame, we expected that his celebrity status would bring an added pressure to speak in a “correct”  manner, therefore influencing Beckham to opt for the standard variants more frequently. …”
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