Kleiner R J, Dalgard O S
Am J Psychother. 1975 Apr;29(2):150-65. doi: 10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1975.29.2.150.
There has been growing interest in social mobility (that is, an individual's movement within a social system) and the problems associated with it. This paper shows that the rates of psychiatric disorder are a function of (a) social mobility, (b) direction of mobility, (c) distance moved, (d) the locus of mobility in the status hierarchy. A central concept in this discussion is the concept of "anomie."