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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Class Privilege"”.
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Exercising Social Class Privilege: Examining the Practices and Processes Defining Upper-Middle Class Swimming Club Culture
… theorist Pierre Bourdieu argues that social class is defined by the interplay and operation of various forms of capital and, as such, is thought to be a significant determinant of an individual's everyday experiences, understandings, and identities. He believes that participation in private …
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"It's Just a Sport. It's Just a Sport, Right?": The Reproduction of Class Privilege in Ultimate
… be played only by an incredibly homogenous and privileged group of people. Further, Ultimate has only been studied by a handful of people (Hamish Crocket, Gerald Griggs, Lindsay Pattison, Andrew Thornton, and Kirsten Walters), none of whom have substantively addressed the Ultimate community’s …
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Defining the middle classes: using Bourdieu's trilogy of habitus, capital and field to deconstruct the reproduction of middle-class privilege
This is a thesis about the middle classes. Using Bourdieu's trilogy of habitus, capital and field, the thesis attempts to capture the logic of practice embedded in middle-class decision-making. Drawing on longitudinal, qualitative research across two sixth-form institutions, I explore how young …
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Liberia: Postwar, Not Yet Postcolonial
… project explicates the ways in which gender and class privilege impact political participation, democratic institutions and political organizations in ways that allow historical inequalities to reproduce. The exclusionary nature of politics in Liberia demand that Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, as the …
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Describing Counselors' Social Class and Socioeconomic Status Understanding and Awareness
… skills. However, far too often, social class and socioeconomic status are excluded from counselors' multicultural training, and similarly, often overlooked as an integral aspect of clients' culture (Liu, 2011; Smith, 2008). The current literature reveals that scholars have taken more …
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Trafficking in the Spaces of Poverty: Reading the Post-War Wars of American Literature and Culture
… the emotional work of absolving middle and upper class guilt when faced with the persistence of inequality. Managing the poor through these discourses has stabilized white middle-class privilege and produced uneven geographies. These spaces are socially managed and constructed through ideology to …
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Understanding 'It': Affective Authenticity, Space, and the Phish Scene
… at shows and a white, middle and upper-middle class cultural memory of the Grateful Dead scene. I situate this process amidst a cultural backdrop of 1980s and 1990s identity politics and in particular, multiculturalism and suggest that Phish scene identity be analyzed as a middle class …
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Las Tejanas in nineteenth-century Texas: (En)gendering race, empire, and nation in the borderlands, 1750-1850
… show how Tejanas deployed degrees of racial and class privilege to challenge and reinforce interlocking systems of oppression grounded on anti-Blackness and through the literal and figurative erasure of Indigenous peoples across Spanish, Mexican, and American settler-colonial projects. In …
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Exploring the Emergence of Global Citizen Identity in Youth
… international exchange, adolescence, and social class privilege, this study explored the developmental impact of exchange on privileged U.S. high school students.</p> <p>One overarching question guided this qualitative study: “To what extent does participation in short-term reciprocal …
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Code, performance and ideology : the dialogue of reception as dramatic praxis in Voltaire's tragedies
… and action restrict it to those who had the classical education necessary to understand and manipulate its rules, thereby establishing a gender and class privilege within the text. Chapter II begins with the premise that performance is not external or incidental but integral to the texts …
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Women and the American Wilderness: Responses to Landscape and Myth
… and Myth" explores three, middle to upper-class white women's responses to wilderness from texts published between 1823 and 1939. Through an exploration of James Fenimore Cooper's heroine Elizabeth Temple in the novel The Pioneers (1823), Isabella Bird's published letters entitled A Lady's …
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What Was Squatting, and What Comes Next?: The Mystery of Property in New York City, 1984-2014
… with marketable skills, stable jobs, or middle class privilege, legalization was a boon, but, as was the case in many informal settlements in the developing world where property has been formalized, for the most marginal it ranged from tolerable to disastrous. As each person was required to …