Hey look, a rehash of my Sociology 101 class from freshman year of college. Most Americans call themselves as "middle class," and most Americans believe that s

Hey look, a rehash of my Sociology 101 class from freshman year of college. Most Americans call themselves as "middle class," and most Americans believe that social mobility is higher than it actually is. In fact, since the 1970s, economists and sociologists have known that social mobility in America is not much higher than in Europe. This is old news.