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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"Class identity"”.
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Working class single mothers : performing middle class identity
… motherhood has been devoted to poor or middle class single mothers. In this study I interviewed working class single mothers. Their unique position between the poor and the middle class leads to interesting observations about how women at the boundaries do and perform class. These women, while …
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First-Generation College Students' Experiences with Social Class Identity Dissonance
… the differences in experiences of social class identity dissonance between first-generation college students and non-first-generation college students. Additionally, this study aimed to examine the effect of social class identity dissonance on psychological distress in first-generation …
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Middle-Class Identity and Hindu Women's Ritual Practice in South India
… of social change via an exploration of a middle-class, multi-caste Hindu women’s religious group in south India called the Śri Maṅgala Vināyagar Satsang Group (SMVS). It utilizes the group members’ narratives about rural-urban difference and modifications to Hindu women’s rituals to explore the …
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Social class: the role of class identity management strategies in higher education
… of an educational achievement gap between lower-class students and their higher-class peers has led to a growing interest in the psychological dimension of social class in higher education. Complementing objective and subjective measures of social class, this thesis explores the role of class …
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Explaining the India-U.S. Strategic Partnership: The Impact of Middle-Class Identity
Social-Cognitive identity is at partnership’s core. My dissertation explores an empirical puzzle of how and why did India and the United States form a strategic partnership in 2008. This bilateral relationship is puzzling because it appeared inconceivable to practitioners and theorists of …
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Reconciling working-class identity and educational success: a study of successful teenage boys, locality and schooling
This thesis focuses on the ways in which working-class boys reconcile their identity with educational success. It presents the findings of an indepth qualitative study of successful teenage boys from one locality in Belfast. The boys attend either the local grammar or local secondary school, which …
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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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The South African Commercial Advertiser and the making of middle class identity in early nineteenth-century Cape Town
… to explore issues around the making of colonial identity in Cape Town during the early nineteenth century, making use of post-structuralist theories about discourse and the textual nature of historical reality. It therefore hopes to build on already existing work which concerns this period, but …
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Effects of the working class label: increased affect and social class identification
Building on social identity theory and the sociocultural model of the self, we show that relatively lower-class individuals who value their social class identity (as activated by the “working class” label) experience elevated group identification and well-being. First, we found that social class …
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"From the smoke of the town, to the fields and the groves": gender, class and the pursuit of leisure in London's eighteenth-century pleasure gardens
… to address how gender shaped the growing middle-class identity. The importance of gender in the formation of a middle-class identity is often not apparent because the arenas in which gender was regularly debated, like pleasure gardens, are not studied. Examining public spaces like pleasure …
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Views from the Summit: White Working Class Appalachian Males and Their Perceptionsof Academic Success
This research study explored how White working class Appalachian males who have completed, or who were within one term of completing a program of study at one of ten community and technical colleges in West Virginia perceived academic success. It examined their definitions of academic success, the …
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A Particle Filtering Approach to Joint Passive Radar Tracking and Target Classification
… to provide a joint framework for tracking and classification that realizes the full potential of such an approach. Our joint formulation consists of three key developments: (1) an aerodynamically valid flight model that relies upon aircraft-specific coefficients such as the wing area and the …
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Acoustic Feature Design for Speech Recognition, a Statistical Information-Theoretic Approach
… the conditional mutual information between the class identity and the feature vector in the lower-dimensional space given the recognizer model.
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Doing the heavy lifting: the experiences of working-class professional services and administrative staff in Russell Group universities
… (Reay, 2017b). At present, studies of social class focus on the experiences of working-class academics and working-class students (Crew, 2020; Crozier et al., 2019). Academic research has not yet addressed the experiences of working-class professional services and administrative staff, who …
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Poisoners, larcenists, and the mad chambermaid: Villainy in late Victorian detective fiction
… detective fiction in order to examine middle class conceptions of criminality and the way those models reflect the values of Victorian society. Through a study of more than sixty pieces of short detective fiction, this study identifies and focuses on six primary categories: the visual …
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Cultural Identity Salience, Individuation, and Life Satisfaction in Emerging Adulthood
… emerging adults’ (18-29 years old) cultural identity domains of race/ethnicity identity, gender identity, sexual identity, spiritual identity, and socioeconomic class identity with their features of individuation from parents and life satisfaction. Additional emphases were placed on …
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Contested Majority: The Representation Of The White Working Class In Us Politics From The 1930s To The 1990s
… examines the representation of the white working class in US politics from the 1930s to the 1990s: how politicians, journalists, pollsters, pundits, political commentators, social movement groups, and others have studied, written about, and claimed to speak for white working class people and how …
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"There was something grotesque": The Application and Limits of Respectability in the Daughters of Bilitis
… Due to this juxtaposition, the largely middle-class, white membership exhibited socially conservative views in order to make long-term social change, leading to an inherent contradiction between maintaining their middle-class identity and public respectability. Seen from the organization’s …
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The Yanks Are Striking: Kern County, the 1921 Oil Strike and the Discourse on Americanism
… Legion. The strike did not end in gruesome class warfare like had been seen months earlier in the coal mines of West Virginia, but rather in ideological confusion and despair. The oil workers movement never fully embraced a class identity; instead it embraced the burgeoning conservative …
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Cultural capital and cultural repertoires among the black middle-class: race, class, and culture in the racialised social system
… ‘Do racism and anti-racism affect black middle-class cultural lives?’ I answer this question through interviews with thirty-two black Brits in professional occupations, and ethnographic work across middle-class spaces in London. I argue there are three black middle-class identity modes – …
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