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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"White working-class"”.
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Perception of menopause : black and white working-class women's experiences
This thesis aimed to address the ways in which class, race, culture, gender and power shape experiences of menopause by exploring the experiences of South African black and white working-class women. The main implications for theorization on menopause from this study are that (1) there is no single …
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Views from the Summit: White Working Class Appalachian Males and Their Perceptionsof Academic Success
This research study explored how White working class Appalachian males who have completed, or who were within one term of completing a program of study at one of ten community and technical colleges in West Virginia perceived academic success. It examined their definitions of academic success, the …
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‘A Class Apart’?: South Asian Immigrants and the White Working Class Left, Yorkshire 1960-1981
… This thesis aims to examine the reactions of the white working class Left in Yorkshire to these new arrivals from 1960 to 1981, analyse the factors which prompted these reactions, and assess the implications of this reaction for our understanding of concepts such as ‘class’, and ‘identity’.
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Why do so many white working class boys underachieve? An exploration of underpinning factors and beliefs
The media and current literature portray white working class boys as educational failures with restricted life chances. To date, no mixed methods research has been conducted to explore these commonly held views. This study serves as a starting point, taking what we know about achievement and …
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Contested Majority: The Representation Of The White Working Class In Us Politics From The 1930s To The 1990s
… dissertation examines the representation of the white working class in US politics from the 1930s to the 1990s: how politicians, journalists, pollsters, pundits, political commentators, social movement groups, and others have studied, written about, and claimed to speak for white working class …
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Walking the Black Country tightrope: the development of white working-class males’ expectations toward (non) participation in higher education
… in the levels of educational attainment between white working-class males and their more affluent counterparts, has been a common feature of discussion within research and educational policy in the UK. In more recent times, this discourse has widened to highlight a similar disparity in the rates …
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The Story Less Told: Representations in the Inter-War Years of the American White Working Class by Four Female Authors
… treat gender through their representation of working-class women; exploring the interaction between art and propaganda in their novels; and considering the extent to which their backgrounds and life experiences influence their writing.
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Fear and Loathing in White, Working Class America: How Political Appeals to Individualism, Implicit Racism, and Religion have Polarized our Two-Party System
… This paper focuses on the values of the white, working class, as this group has been the target of many political codes and appeals throughout American history due to its ability to sway a voting body. Politicians have exploited the unique economic and social circumstances of the white, …
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Returning to the rand revolt: centering settler colonialism and racial capitalism in labour history
This study focuses on the Rand Revolt, a white mineworkers strike that occurred in 1922, as a lens into the white working class in the early 20th Century, Witwatersrand, South Africa. This strike is significant because the events surrounding its conclusion led to the co-optation of the white …
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"Celtic Pride": White Nostalgia and Working-Class Masculinity in 1970s Professional Basketball
… Celtics were widely regarded as the pinnacle of "white" basketball, a style of play that emphasized teamwork, intelligence, efficiency, hard work, grit, and selflessness. They were upheld as a bulwark against the invasion and takeover of the NBA by "black" basketball. If the Celtics and "white" …
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Language and identity in the Cockney Diaspora: A sociophonetic and variationist study
… to the large-scale 20th century relocation of white, working-class East Londoners to Essex. Linguistic production data is extracted from sociolinguistic interviews with 119 people from Debden, an estate built in Essex in the late 1940s in order to rehome East Londoners. The vowel system, (H) …
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Modern English Football Hooliganism: A Quantitative Exploration in Criminological Theory
… pattern has become a preserve for young, white, working-class males. This study employs Albert Cohen's (1955) theory of subcultural delinquency to predict the hooligan activities of young, white, working-class males. West and Farrington's longitudinal study, the Cambridge Study in …
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Padmaker
This novel narrates the lives of the white working class in the years following 1950. It is a fictionalised autobiography which, as an ego document, narrates the experiences of a family of "padmakers" (road builders). These blue-collar workers built and maintained South Africa's roads in the years …
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Needles in a Haystack: Perceptions of Deservingness on the Implementation of Harm Reduction Programs in the American Midwest
The association of opioid abuse with rural, white, working-class individuals ultimately generated sympathy, rather than hatred, in the general political zeitgeist. However, some cases deviated from this pattern by adhering to the common cycle and villainizing individuals with substance use disorder …
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The Man Made World: The Social Production of Health and Disablement in Construction Workers
… study evaluates the relationships among race, class, gender, and occupation in the health of male construction workers. More specifically, this research examines white working-class masculinity in the context of working within the construction industry, and in relationship to health and …
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No More Heroes? The Representation of the English Working Class in the Booker Prize Shortlists
… charts and examines the depiction of English working-class characters over the period 1969-2013. It questions whether, in recent years, the representation of the English working class has become merely reductive. It asks if this representation has become mimetic according to Girard’s scapegoat …
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Bobcat traps and other theories
… in the U.S.—have captured the imagination of white working-class men who reside in rural areas and who feel marginalized as a result of neoliberal economics, production paradigms of deskilling, and emerging cultural discourses around identity politics. Employing narrative modes of memoir, …
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Creating sustainable communities in 'NewcastleGateshead'
… involves the demolition and relocation of mainly white, working class inner-urban communities. This thesis focuses on a year long moment in the process of regeneration in one such HMRP in North East England, known as ‘Bridging NewcastleGateshead’ (BNG) and draws from rich, detailed ethnographic …
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In the Name of the Home: Women, Domestic Science, and American Higher Education, 1865--1930
… social problems centered on issues of race, class, ethnicity, and region. I examined four educational institutions to explore the influence of these variables on the history of domestic science. These schools included Hampton Institute, Teachers College, the University of Illinois and Vassar …
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