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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Class Distinctions"”.
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Liminal Butlers: Discussing a Comic Stereotype and the Progression of Class Distinctions in America
… servant shows a conservative evolution of class freedom through early American films. As an individual thrust into a liminal sphere, these characters paradoxically become a character type for both keeping class-consciousness as well as breaking up notions of class, albeit in a slow process. …
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Classifying Fashion & Fashioning Class: An Inquiry Into Class Distinctions in Fashion Consumption and Taste Amongst British Women Today
… explores the relationship between fashion and class for women in contemporary British society. In doing so, it contributes to the sociological literature on fashion, class, gender and space and provides a greater understanding of the class distinctions which exist in terms of British women's …
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Learning Race and *Class: Chinese Americans in Multiracial Bridgeport
… and racism in Bridgeport, a multiracial working class immigrant community adjacent to Chicago's Chinatown. Specifically, I observe that Chinese Americans in Bridgeport are subjected to various and even contradictory experiences of racialization: they are often racialized together with Latinos as …
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The Kingdom Falls
… morality, ethics, gender roles, masculinity, class distinctions, and social constructs through the lenses of characters as varied as a beggar on the street and the captain of the watch in an attempt to create a monomyth of the kingdom itself rather than any one central character. This …
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Activism in transition: generations and political subjectivation in the Chilean post-dictatorship student movement.
… the analysis springs two main axes: memory and class. In the case of the 1997 generation, memory is a complex issue as they struggle to construct a collective identity and political subjectivation that is able to both relate to the past, but also to reflect the new character of their struggle. …
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Subversive aspects of American musical theatre
… to define. While officially, America is a classless society, class distinctions make a difference, and musicals have long championed the underdogs, both financial and social. Many “non-white” ethnic groups have been subordinated in American society but centered within musical theatre. While …
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Mulk Raj Anand: Moving India Forward
… inhumane practices of untouchability and social class distinctions and to seek the enlightening prospects of progress and modernity. In his three novels Coolie, Two Leaves and a Bud, and Untouchable, Anand explores the lives of of the down-trodden. The first chapter of this project defines and …
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Leisure and surveillance in Irish childhoods: A cross-class study of Cork city
This research provides an interpretive cross-class analysis of the leisure experience of children, aged between six and ten years, living in Cork city. This study focuses on the cultural dispositions underpinning parental decisions in relation to children’s leisure activities, with a particular …
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An investigation into the design, production and display contexts of industrial safety posters produced by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents during WW2 and a catalogue of posters
… community” beyond the normal tribal and class distinctions of British society through “Social Vision.” The RoSPA posters make explicit a connection, within English Modernism, between community, technology, progress and dissent. A catalogue of posters is appended to the thesis. The RoSPA …
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Exploring the role of an NPO in the ECD sector: a case study of ELRUs collective society of community stakeholders and staff members within the Cape Flats
… the broader educational landscape, emphasizing class distinctions, economic realities, and symbolic powers within the organization. The narrative mirrors the complexities of the Cape Flats, resonating with historical injustices and aspirations for educational equity. Despite these challenges, …
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Wealth and Worship: The Relationship Between Resources and Religiosity Among African Americans
… More explicitly, it is focused on how class (and to some degree, status) as an independent variable influences religiosity among African Americans. It takes a similar view of class distinctions, particularly analyzing the psyches and behaviors of the Black middle class as addressed in …
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Mastering the Story/Storying the Master: Philosophy of Education Discourse and Empire
… not only through race but through gender and class distinctions as well. I analyze the racialized narrative conventions of liberal modern Enlightenment philosophy and the role these conventions continue to play in the creation and maintenance of a violent racial state. Drawing upon Critical …
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Reading the Restaurant: Social Class, Identity, and the Culture of Consumption in the Nineteenth Century French Novel
… I illuminate its important role in precipitating class distinctions, locating the emerging consumer culture, highlighting gender differentiation, challenging prevailing views of domesticity, and revealing a debate over public and private space.</p> <p>Through a close reading of the realist novel …
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Turning Left: Counter-Hegemonic Exhibition-Making in the Post-Socialist Era (1989-2014)
… institutional exhibitions play in reinforcing class distinctions and devaluing nonprofessional creativity.
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Common Grounds in Shared Waters Integrated Design for Negotiating Equitable Development in Gosabara-Mokarsagar
… already marginalized by religious, caste, and class distinctions, were banned from fishing, which was their sole traditional livelihood due to environmental protection claims. This led the community to file a petition for mass euthanasia to protest the loss of their rights. Despite their …
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The Literature of Loss: Modernity, Poetic Prose, and the Tendency Toward Contradiction
… looks at how genre reinforces the rise of class and social disparities. The thesis then looks at the aesthetic theory and practice of William Wordsworth’s <em>Lyrical Ballads</em>, in which the prosification of poetry represents the descent of poetic status, democratization, universality, …
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An investigation into deviant morphology : issues in the implementation of a deep grammar for Indonesian
… challenge we face is the claim that all open class words in Indonesian, at least as it is spoken in some varieties (Gil 1994; Gil 2010), cannot linguistically be analysed as being distinct from each other. That is, there is no distiction between nouns, verbs or adjectives in Indonesian, and …
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An investigation into deviant morphology : issues in the implementation of a deep grammar for Indonesian
… challenge we face is the claim that all open class words in Indonesian, at least as it is spoken in some varieties (Gil 1994; Gil 2010), cannot linguistically be analysed as being distinct from each other. That is, there is no distiction between nouns, verbs or adjectives in Indonesian, and …