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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"Class status"”.
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Class, status and gender : a comparative study of perceptions of class and status in an Inner London Borough
… respective partners examines the salience of class, gender and local status groups as subjective categories in social identity and attitudes, in order to discover the extent to which people are politically conscious in terms of these three groups. The research was undertaken in Stamford Hill , …
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Attitudes toward women's roles: a study of selected undergraduate students at Rowan University
… the impact of demographic factors such as age, class level, class status, major, gender and race. The data on the attitudes toward women's roles was collected using a 25 item Likert-scale survey. The data analysis suggests that the selected students had a profeminist, egalitarian attitude rather …
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"The Geography of the ""social Register"""
… Social Register is a reliable indicator of upper class status in the United States. This paper explores the intersection of class, status and residency in America. The upper class has used strategic legal constructions such as restrictive land covenants, zoning, municipal incorporation and …
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Gissing and unhealth: an analysis of medicine, death, and eugenics in the work of George Gissing
… as a way of prescribing a healthy, middle-class status quo. Character response to and author treatment of medicine, death and eugenics will be explored, reflecting how health and unhealth are controlled, feared and embraced. Chapter one focuses on medicine and power relationships between …
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Functional Reactive Programming For Games
… inputs at the same time, benefit from the first class status of Signals, which allow them to be combined.
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‘You Can’t Sit With Us’: Habitus, Capital and Socio-economic Background in the Established Status of University Sport
… least understood. Socio-economic background and class status have a significant influence on university sport and culture, as well as student athletes’ experiences of participating in sport. Using the theoretical concepts of Bourdieu, the impact of class and social structure was examined. Method: …
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Rethinking viewpoints of investigation on global higher education development: Using the case of China to propose an alternative perspective to understand world higher education
… seem to suggest the pursuit of becoming a world-class university has been a global trend in higher education development. However, the single-minded pursuit of world-class status in the rankings may lead to irrational strategies that could undermine the development of universities and limit the …
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Wealth and Worship: The Relationship Between Resources and Religiosity Among African Americans
… (addressing the larger concept of socioeconomic status, which is often abbreviated as SES) and religiosity (as measured by religious service attendance) is the dependent variable. The aim of this work is to determine whether economic progress is in any way related to the spirituality or …
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Higher than those of their race of less fortunate advantages:Race, ethnicity, and West Indian political leadership in Detroit's African American community, 1885-1940
… that West Indian immigrants perceived middle-class status and ethnicity as a means of distinguishing themselves from their African American counterparts, but race became a more significant factor as more black Americans entered the middle class.</p>
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Ordinal Regression to Evaluate Student Ratings Data
… or poor rating. Student grade, instructor status, class level, student gender, total enrollment, term, GE class status, and college are used as explanatory variables.
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Wife abuse among Indians in the U.S.
… of the complex ways in which race/ethnicity, class, gender and legal status intersect to shape the experiences of wife abuse among women. In this study, I analyze the experiences of one group of abused women -- Indian women in the U.S. I examine how Indian women's experience of abuse, and …
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An ecosystemic assessment of the 'children of divorce intervention program' for children between the ages of eight to twelve years
… 2 to 7 at school; 20 children were of middle-class status, 8 children were from lower socio-economic backgrounds; 7 children had parents whose divorce was pending, the other 21 children had parents who had been divorced between 3 months and 11 years; and 26 of the 28 children were in the …
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An Explorative Study of the Perceptions of Lower Social Class African American Families of the Working Alliance with Middle Social Class White Family Therapists
… who were unlike them in race and social class. This study was conducted as a qualitative investigation, as the researcher engaged in the semi-structured interview technique with families who have undergone family therapy. This research study investigated how lower social class African …
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More than race: Differentiating Black students’ everyday experiences in Texas school desegregation, 1968-1978
… namely race, gender, and socioeconomic status, differentiate their everyday experiences? This local social history examines this central question, using intersectionality as the theoretical lens and oral history interviews alongside historical methods to analyze how gender, class, and …
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Visualization of Student Cohort Data With Sankey Diagrams via Web-Centric Technologies
… graph, where a vertex represents a distinct class status for a semester and each weighted edge represents the number of students moving between class statuses. To ease understanding, this graph is represented visually as a Sankey Diagram, a special kind of flow diagram. The purpose of this …
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Civic engagement among emerging adults : evidence from the panel survey of income dynamics.
… financial support, perceived time pressure, and class-of-origins has on civic engagement. Utilizing quantitative methods I found evidence to support positive relationships between being raised in a dual-headed household and higher parental class status on increases in emerging adult civic …
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Trainee Attitudes Toward Social Class as Predictors of Clinical Decision Making: Exploring the Effects of Classism in Psychotherapy
<p>The current study examined the effects of classist beliefs on trainee attitudes toward their client based on perceived social-class status. This study sought to determine whether classist attitudes contribute to meaningful differences in clinical decision making. A sample of mental health …
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Looking back in time, staring into history: an autobiographical sketch of an elementary school teacher from Appalachia
… Appalachian values, the other of earned middle class status. It is the personal narrative of an elementary school teacher and administrator who time after time attempted to escape an oppressive pedagogy only to be sucked helplessly back in at each new experience. And, it is the anecdote of an …
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