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Drawing on four waves of longitudinal data from the Chilean Longitudinal Social Survey (ELSOC, 2016\u20132023), we assess the extent to which class stability and different forms of social mobility\u2014conjunctural, structural, and cumulative\u2014influence the degree of class homogeneity in personal networks. We use the position generator instrument to measure cross-class social ties across 13 occupations, calculating the proportion of ties belonging to respondents\u2019 own class. Our findings reveal that class homogeneity remained relatively stable across the period (40\u201345%), with both upper-middle-class and working-class respondents reporting similarly high proportions of same-class contacts (above 40%). Class-stable individuals consistently exhibit higher network homogeneity than mobile individuals, supporting theoretical expectations regarding cumulative homophily effects. Upwardly mobile individuals generally display lower homogeneity than downwardly mobile individuals in short- and medium-term transitions, although this asymmetry becomes less consistent when cumulative mobility trajectories are considered. Stable lower-middle-class individuals exhibit significantly lower homogeneity than stable working-class or upper-middle-class respondents. Long-term mobility patterns\u2014whether upward, downward, or oscillatory\u2014correspond to more diverse social networks compared to stable class locations, with less consistent differences between mobility directions. 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