Agency

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The knowledge base for the Agency project. Definitions, research summaries, and frameworks for understanding social mobility and the mindset that drives it.

Foundations

  • Social Mobility — what it is, how it's measured, and why it matters to your daily life

Case studies

  • The Hungarian Surname Study — elite status surviving communism: the research that challenges everything we assume about equality of opportunity
  • The Kresy Case Study — how Polish families stripped of everything by Soviet deportation became the most educated subgroup in Poland within three generations

Frameworks

  • The Uprootedness Hypothesis — why displacement redirects investment toward portable human capital, and what it reveals about where durable value actually lives