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Showing 1 to 20 of 109 for “"Social classes"”.
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Clothing buying practices of employed single black women from three social classes
… according to McGuire-White Short Form Index of Social Status. Chi square test for independence was used to test for significant differences among groups in relation to: their pre-planning of purchases; stores they patronized; methods of payment they used; and factors influencing their personal …
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The industrial suburbs of Leeds in the nineteenth century : Community consciousness among the social classes
… generally neglected by historians. Marxist social theory provides little framework for the examination of the significance of community in capitalist society. This study of the industrial suburbs of Leeds indicates the importance of community consciousness, both as a force moulding class …
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Grief, Mourning and Motherhood: Cultural experiences of child and infant deaths across different social classes in the Victorian period
… part of life in Victorian England, across all social classes, particularly the deaths of infants and children. 1 in 4 children died before the age of 5 consistently throughout the Victorian period. The Victorian fascination with death has been explored extensively by historians, especially the …
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An exploratory study investigating a group of South African children's economic socialization and understanding : a comparison between two social classes
… pertaining to South African children's economic socialization. A paucity of systematic and comprehensive work exists in this field in general, and as regards South African research, the only attempt to investigate children's economic socialization is an unpublished honours thesis (Robinson, …
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What are the differences between how the social classes are portrayed in the News Media in regards to the drinking culture in Britain today?
… media portrays the drinking habits of the lower classes namely the 'underclass' and the working class, compared with the middle class and celebrity culture in Britain today. Using critical discourse analysis this research explores why the social classes are portrayed differently, who decides on …
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A classe média no Brasil: condições do consumo e a influência no número de filhos por domicílio
… of children in the households according to their social classes and their respective patterns of consumption. For the methodological source of the discussion about the relations of social classes, the research was based on Goldthorpe's (1987) scheme of operation, in order to observe the relational …
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The Relationship of Physical Activity to Physical and Psychological Well-Being
… Women, non-whites and persons from lower social classes are stratified into specific types of activities, yet the amount of time they spend participating is similar to that of men, whites and individuals in upper social classes. The elderly and the employed are the only groups that spend …
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The use of <i>fuck</i>: A sociolinguistic approach to the usage of <i>fuck</i> in the BNC and blog authorship corpus
… <em>fuck</em> between genders, age groups, and social classes. The resulting analysis shows that there is little variance in use between male and female speakers, while use is most prevalent during the teens and early 20s. This study offers further support of the idea that there are two distinct …
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Essays on Labour Market in Developing Countries
… rate of inter-ethnic communication to maintain social connection. As inter-ethnic communication requires more skills than intra-ethnic connection, people in ethnically diverse districts are motivated to invest more in social skills to be able to communicate with those outside their own group. …
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Investigating Social Mobility: Cultural Frames and Cultural Frame Switching in First-Generation College Students
… examines whether people who move between social classes 1) experience social class biculturalism, and 2) engage in social class cultural frame switching. I explore these questions using first-generation college students (FGs), who move from working-class communities into middle-class …
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Political crisis and the politics of water pollution control in the 1970s
… capitalist class, again, political benefits to social classes took the form of legal safeguards to promote the accumulation of capital and to maintain existing class relations.
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The political economy of the Kunene River hydro-electric schemes
… in an economic base that consists not only in social classes but also in the particular geographical and technological infrastructural development of a region. For example, the nature of railway development in colonial Africa had long-lasting particular political and economic effects. …
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The State Again
… stylized fact, we will consider a model with two social classes, workers and capitalists. These social classes differ in terms of their initial endowment, their consumption behaviour, the different loans repayment conditions required to them by the banks and in terms of the ways in which they can …
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Using social networking to increase independent social functioning in a student with autism
… study was to examine if engaging a student on a social networking site with his peers would increase social functioning in other settings. In this study social interactions were measured by reciprocating greetings, initiating greetings, and total numbers of social interactions during lunch and …
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Pubertal development in white and coloured urban schoolgirls
… main ethnic groups in the Cape, controlling for social class. This study aimed to investigate: 1. The age of menarche and other stages of pubertal development of white and coloured school girls living in greater Cape Town. 2. The relationship between the age of menarche and the other stages of …
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Women and Leisure in Manchester, 1920-c.1960
… and shifting perceptions of the concept across social classes and over the historical period. It presents a picture of leisure at the local level, whilst suggesting a chronology of leisure which has implications for our understanding of the national experience. The fundamental originality of the …
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Slumming and the 19th century geographical imagination
… how they were used or experienced by different social classes. In most cases, this geographical imagination reinforced the physical and ideological partitions that already existed between various classes and ethnic groups. Works by popular writers like Osgood Bradbury, and canonical novelists …
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Music, Migrancy, and Modernity: A Study of Brazilian Forró
… account of the various ways that different social classes are practicing Forró today, and highlights the multiple ""modernity"" discourses at work when discussing Forró as an event. The final chapter deals with the styles of dancing associated with Forró music, how music and dance affect …
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Dissident physiocrats : value, surplus and distribution in the economic writings of Le Trosne, Turgot, Morellet and Isnard.
… is the surplus normally distributed among the social classes?". These and other questions are treated by this younger generation of writers in an original manner. The rejection by Isnard of the physiocratic doctrine of the exclusive productivity of agriculture or Turgot's notion of profit as a …
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