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Showing 1 to 20 of 441 for “"Social Class"”.
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Social class and education: the relationship between social class and engagement with education.
This study explores the relationship between social class and engagement with education. A qualitative approach was used in the investigation. Four participants narrated their stories of their journey through the education system. Three participants were at Bachelor of Arts level in a community …
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Critical autonomy: Investigating social class and education
… as a theoretical framework to guide responses to social class oppression in schooling. The project is grounded on Cheryl Misak and C. S. Peirce's arguments about inquiry and their implications for holding knowledge claims, especially claims to self-knowledge. As a result, critical autonomy …
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Social class, pedagogy and achievement in art
… of secondary school, by learners in different social positions. It investigates first, achievement patterns in final-exhibition percentage grades, in relation to learners' social class, race, and gender. Second, based on comparison of high and lower-achieving school classes of socially similar …
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Social Class and Elite University Education: A Bourdieusian Analysis
… has not led to a substantial reduction to class inequalities at elite universities, where the admissions process is growing even more selective. In his classic studies of French education and society, Pierre Bourdieu explains how schools can contribute to the maintenance and reproduction of …
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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
… 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 …
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Social class depiction in selected award-winning children's narrative fiction
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Examining Teachers' Perceptions of the United States Social Class System
… the inherent inequities within the United States class system continue to grow. Teacher perceptions regarding the social class system in the United States are examined utilizing focus group interviews with four teachers in an urban high school. A critical qualitative methodology was used to …
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Examining Teachers' Perceptions Of The United States Social Class System
… the inherent inequities within the United States class system continue to grow. Teacher perceptions regarding the United States social class system are examined through focus group interviews with four teachers in an urban high school. A critical qualitative methodology was used to explore how the …
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Social Class and Capital Punishment: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis
… executed in the United States are poor, the social class - execution link has not been well documented or theorized in the literature. Far more research has analyzed the relationship of race and gender to execution. Using data on executions carried out in Texas between 2000 and 2012, …
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First-Generation College Students' Experiences with Social Class Identity Dissonance
… study explored 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 …
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Sense, Sensibility, Sympathy, Social Class Upheaval in Jane Austen’s Novels
<p>This thesis will explore Jane Austen’s social commentary on class structure and boundaries as they evolved from her writing of Sense and Sensibility to Persuasion. By identifying and researching the philosophical concepts of sense, sensibility, and sympathy in the eighteenth and nineteenth …
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The Influence of Social Class Background on Childhood Sport Involvement
… study tested a theoretical explanation of how social class background influences degree and kind of sport participation. Two theoretical constructs of social class: life chances-economic opportunity set; and life-styles-social psychological opportunity set were operationalized within the …
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Describing Counselors' Social Class and Socioeconomic Status Understanding and Awareness
… applicable 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 …
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Disadvantaged Social Class And Clients' Experiences In Therapy: A Qualitative Investigation
… model to illustrate disadvantaged clients' social class-related experiences in therapy. Clients' perceptions of therapist behaviors that positively and negatively influenced the quality of their therapy were also explored. Individual interviews were conducted with 18 adult clients (13 …
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