What is "move up"

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To put something higher or further. 2 # (context transitive English) To promote, put onto a higher level. 3 # (context transitive English) To raise, put onto a higher place. 4 # (context transitive English) To put higher on a list. 5 (context intransitive English) To move higher. 6 # To be promoted. 7 # To pass to a higher level. 8 (context intransitive English) To move one's position to allow others to occupy a place.

1. v. move upward; "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows" [syn: rise, lift, arise, go up, come up, uprise] [ant: descend]

2. be promoted, move to a better position [syn: rise]

Move UP is a nonfiction book written by Dr. Clotaire Rapaille and Dr. Andrés Roemer in 2013 that explains upward social mobility from a biological and cultural perspective, and how societies and nations create adequate environments for maintaining the bio-logical (a term they use referring to being logical about our biology) requirements of the human specie. The book is based on the latest research in biology, evolutionary psychology, behavioral economics, neuroscience and anthropology.

The authors question what factors allow us to move up taking into account the culture codes proposed by Dr. Rapaille, and their congruence with human biology, and Roemer’s economic and biological precepts. Furthermore, the authors propose a new paradigm for understanding human needs and wants, contrasting Maslow’s Pyramid of Needs with the Four S’s: Survival, Sex, Security, and Success. These four S’s express man’s needs and wants whereby it is not necessary for one to be satisfied in order for the other to exist. The Four S’s carry equal importance. Based on these Four S’s and the move up culture codes, the authors developed the R^2 Mobility Index.