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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Cross-class"”.
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Constructing Science and Status in Charles Darwin’s Cross-Class Correspondence Network
… forms of non-elite participation is by examining class specific spaces of knowledge production; by mid- to late-century, however, social and scientific hierarchies were in flux. Through reading and writing, individuals interested in science were able to cross social and geographic distances …
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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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Upward Cross-Class Interactions at Work: An Investigation of Emotional and Behavioral Outcomes
<p>Cross-class interactions—when an individual from a lower (higher) social class background interacts with an individual from a higher (lower) social class background (Truong et al., 2021)—are ubiquitous in the workplace and serve as a vehicle for the reproduction of inequality (Gray & …
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Clientelism, conditional cash transfers, and cross-class coalitions: why governments expand pro-poor redistribution.
… CCTs are now present in developing countries across the world. The adoption of a targeted benefit for poor people represents a radical reshaping of social policy in places such as the Latin American and Caribbean where the poor were long excluded from the welfare state. The poor were also …
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"If We Are Nothing Without Them, Then They Are Also Nothing Without Us": Cross-Class Political Mobilisation in Urban Pakistan
In cities of the Global South, socioeconomic class is a major factor in social, spatial, and political fragmentation. The thesis challenges existing approaches to urban politics, which largely theorise political practices as class distinct. The thesis seeks to interrogate these framings through …
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Constructing Community : class, privatization and social life in a Boston mixed income housing development
… dissertation examines unexpected influences on cross-class interaction in a privatized mixed income housing development in Boston, Massachusetts. The research site Maverick Landing was constructed as an alternative to low-income public housing as part of the HOPE VI program funded by the U.S. …
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The Social Construction of a Public/Private Neighborhood: Examining Neighbor Interaction and Neighborhood Meaning in a New Orleans Mixed-Income Development
… within-group interaction was prevalent while cross-class interaction remained limited. Mechanisms that were intended to facilitate cross-class interaction were neutralized by the exertion of social control. Both limited mobility and neighborhood choice were factors that shaped residents’ …
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Subnational Developmentalism: Brazil in Comparative Perspective
… political party development, and the creation of cross-class coalitions. I employ case study analysis and subnational comparative method to evaluate these questions, focusing on contemporary Brazil (1990--present)."
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The Gig is Up: The Disjunction of Gig Economy Labor and the American Welfare State
… by which gig laborers and gig firms can form cross class alliances that can help develop new welfare state policies to improve gig worker conditions and be supported by gig firms themselves.
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A comparative study of the diffusion of antihypertensive and antidepressant medications in Germany in Japan
… and 2003. The antihypertensive medications are classified as new, middle and old generations and the antidepressants are classified as new and old generations in this study. The demographic, economic, price, promotional, regulatory, and cultural factors that contributed to the sales level, …
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Saving Salt City: Fighting Inequality Through Policy and Activism in Syracuse, NY, 1955-1975
… agency of activists who built interracial and cross-class organizations through which they contested the marginalization and segregation of Black Syracusans. By examining the struggles around major issues including education, housing, police brutality, employment, and a broader vision of …
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Working for American rights: black, white and Mexican American dockworkers in Texas during the Great Depression
… acknowledging a common identity for its members across race lines. For all ILA members, the union was first and foremost an organization to defend their rights as worker-citizens. To them, citizenship was a compact; in exchange for loyalty to the country and doing their duty on the job, they were …
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Gothic Slumming: Realist Writers and Gothic Texts in Progressive Era America
… to as <italic>gothic realism</italic>, express class anxieties that arose during this period, concerns that resulted from the rapid urbanization, immigration, increased cross-class interaction, and economic precariousness that mark the latter end of the nineteenth and the early years of the …