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Showing 1 to 20 of 1075 for “"Middle class"”.
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Punk Identification With Middle-Class Values
… values are then the basis of punks rejecting middle-class values that are prevalent throughout American society. Namely, the ideas that underpin the American meritocracy as allowing anyone to climb the social ladder if they participate in the system correctly. This was both seen in the answers …
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Is the black middle class shrinking?
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1993.
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The middle class in Halifax, 1780-1850
In recent years, regional works on the British middle class in the nineteenth century have derived the methodology to clarify the widely divergent situations of social relationships and economic, political and social activities of the middle class in provincial towns in the nineteenth century. This …
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School Choice: The Black Middle-class Dilemma
… school choice decision-making process of black middle-class families living in the Algiers community of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. The concept of community has been central to the success of blacks in America since Reconstruction. However, as the Civil Rights Movement helped …
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Working class single mothers : performing middle class identity
… on single 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, …
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Embedded autonomies projecting an American middle-Class polis
… forty years of depressed wages can the American middle-class have? Along with long established tactics on the consumption side of the production equation -- namely collective housing and collective purchasing -- a new form of economic autonomy is emerging from within the very tool-kit of …
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Middle-class Spanish of the city of Bucaramanga, Colombia
There is no abstract available for this dissertation.
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Piety Projects: Islamic Schools for Indonesia's Urban Middle Class
… movements, Islamic education, and the religious middle class. Based on 15 months of ethnographic research, this dissertation demonstrates how schooling can be a tool for shaping socio-religious and political climates of a community and country. It adds to the growing literature on the educational …
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The changing roles of parents in a middle class community
… known locally as the 'Denton Estate'. This is a middle class community and traditionally the middle class have considered themselves in the vanguard of changes regarding good childcare practice. The context and history of present patterns of family life is the first part of the study considering …
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AUTOMATION AND NATIONALISM: THE MICROFOUNDATIONS OF THE MIDDLE-CLASS POLITICAL REALIGNMENT?
This dissertation provides a microfoundational analysis of automation’s political consequences, particularly focusing on mid-skill routine workers exposed to technological replaceability. Extant literature shows that this group of workers has become a core constituency of the radical right parties, …
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Instability among middle class families and the impact of health insurance
<p>What it takes to be middle class in the United States has changed dramatically from the post World War II period to the 1970s and the present. At the same time the requirements for attaining the income and assets associated with a middle class position changed, many financial protections …
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Middle-Class Identity and Hindu Women's Ritual Practice in South India
… issue 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 …
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Sibling relations in Protestant middle-class Ulster families, c.1850-1900
… trace the lived experiences of Ulster Protestant middle-class families. <br/><br/>Sibling relations, intergenerational relationships, and complex kin networks influenced family decision making, strategy, and social trajectory. This thesis explores siblinghood from several thematic perspectives, …
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"Not Free, Merely Licensed": The Black Middle Class As Political Language
The Black middle class has been a subject of intense debate in the last twenty years. Much of the debate has centered on the existence of the Black middle class and whether their status is permanent. Using, J.G.A. Pocock's, concept of "political language," I plan to examine the Black middle class …
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How do middle class Pakistani young people construct contemporary international conflicts?
This thesis examines how middle class Pakistani young people construct contemporary international conflicts. Little previous research has been conducted in this area, and none in Pakistan. This investigation is of interest because young people like the ones who participated in my research may …
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The Growing Middle Class and the Absence of Democracy in China
… the vibrant Chinese economy and its growing middle class have not brought democratic change to the authoritarian country. This work sheds light on the puzzle of the absence of democracy in China despite a fast-growing middle class. The study argues that the key to explaining the middle class’ …
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Toys, Consumption, and Middle Class Childhood in Imperial Germany, 1871--1918
… how adults as consumers tried to fashion modern, middle-class citizens out of boys and girls. They also remind us that Imperial Germany had a vibrant consumer culture that allowed people to shape social values.
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