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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"class culture"”.
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Football, violence and working class culture
… over the years where young males from working class backgrounds have been involved. Issues of class and culture, especially the sub-culture of the young and the sub-culture of violence are also examined with special reference to young males and their occupation of the football terraces. …
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British feature films and working-class culture, 1945-1950
… World War, British films could offer working-class audiences reinforcement for their values and attitudes. The work is in four parts: • Part one comprises a critical exploration of published literature on working-class life in late 1940s across a range of disciplines. • Part two is an …
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Brooklyn Country: Class, Culture and the Politics of "Alternativity"
… to some version of the rural, white, working class(es) (often, but not always, Southern), country has long been a source, and agent, of both longing and dread, from a wide range of subject positions and historical emplacements. Variously configured as an emblem of (or conduit for) …
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Class, Culture, and Motherhood: Women's Perceptions of Their Children in Sao Paulo, Brazil
… research model proposed that a woman's social class and cultural affiliation affect her perceptions of her children and her own well-being by regulating the objective conditions of her life and her perceptions of those conditions. The model was estimated using hierarchical multiple regression …
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The portrayal of the working-class and working-class culture in Barry Hines’s novels
… representation of contemporary British workingclass and working-class culture. The corpus includes the writer’s nine novels: The Blinder published in 1966, A Kestrel for a Knave in 1968, First Signs in 1972, The Gamekeeper in 1975, The Price of Coal in 1979, Looks and Smiles in 1981, Unfinished …
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The Workers' Educational Association : a study in social change and resistance in Canadian working class culture
… opportunities available to the working class. The data for this study were obtained from an analysis of the Ontario and Canadian WEA archives. The thesis first examines the history of the WEA and demonstrate its place in the history of adult education in Canada. Secondly, this study …
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Earning or learning? : class, culture and identity in contemporary schooling : an ethnography from northern England and southern Ireland
… new insights on the cultural landscape of social class inequalities. The current state of educational research in Ireland will also be touched upon, as I introduce the national setting for the comparative element of this study, which forms the location of the school in which I conducted further …
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Nappy Roots, Split Ends, and New Growth: An Autobiographical Narrative Inquiry into The Experiences of A Black Female Educator, No Lye
… inquiry, I explore the ways that race, gender, class, culture, and place shape who I was and how I became who I am as a Black woman educator. Family members, colleagues, community members, and students are the main characters in my stories. Building on the works of Collins (2000), Cross (1991), …
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Common pleasures : low culture in Sydney 1887-1914
This thesis describes and analyses lower-class culture in inner-urban Sydney from 1887 to 1914 as it was enacted in three key institutions— the pub, the vaudeville theatre and the street. It proposes that resistance from below to the dominant order was commonly articulated through cultural codes …
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Revolution, Reform, and Class Conflict in Rebecca Harding Davis’s Life in the Iron-Mills
… not accurately depict contemporaneous working-class culture. Davis depicts workers as isolated and helpless in the face of the forces that oppress them rather than giving voice to the workers’ movement of her time. Although Davis depicts workers in a debased state, the text’s narrator holds out …
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“Seeking peace of mind” – understanding desistance as a journey into recovery and out of chaos
… the lived experience of 40 men from working class areas of Cork city as they attempt to desist from offending. As part of this study, addiction featured as a significant issue for all of the participants and dominated their desistance journey. This study aimed to understand how issues of …
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Understanding the Lived Experiences of African American Males in a Middle School: What Makes Them Achieve
… individual had a different perspective based on class, culture, age, religion, and environment, among other factors. The individual differences impacted the students’ and my own construction of meaning. The paper is organized as follows: (a) Chapter One: Introduction; (b) Chapter Two: Review of …
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Born to Shop: Teenage Women and the United States Marketplace in the 1950s
… how, in the shadow of the atom bomb, middle-class culture emerged as indebted prosperity. The false affluence that appeared in the beginnings of the cold war contributed to a sense of anxiety that, within popular psychological discourses, was projected onto adolescence. Constructed as a …
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Sweating for democracy: working-class media and the struggle for 'hegemonic Jewishness,' 1919-1941
… examines the history of the Jewish working class counterpublic in the United States during the interwar period and its relationships to the broader public sphere. Between 1919 and 1941, organic intellectuals, such as B.C. Vladeck, J.B.S. Hardman, Fannia Cohn, and Morris Novik, employed …
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Straight from the heart: A qualitative analysis of teenage parents and child sexual abuse prevention
Sexual abuse happens to children in every class, culture, race, religion, and gender. The result is often devastating and painful. Among the risks associated with being a child of a teenage parent is the potential for experiencing sexual abuse. With the high incidence of adolescent pregnancies each …
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Intersections of Race and Class in 1830s Othello Burlesques
… of patent theater productions and middle-class culture. Their carnivalesque spectacle and low humor turned topsy-turvy what was falsely revered or pretentious in English society. This study, however, explores the extent to which some burlesques responded conservatively to social and …
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Representing Divorce, Reforming Interiority: Narratives of Gender, Class and Family in Post-Reform Chinese Literature and Culture
… and critical studies about global middle-class cultures. Employing analytical tools mainly from literary studies, cultural studies and feminist theories, I examine stories, novels, films and TV dramas about divorce produced between 1980 and 2004, in the wake of China's ""economic reform …
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Cultural capital and cultural repertoires among the black middle-class: race, class, and culture in the racialised social system
… ‘Do racism and anti-racism affect black middle-class cultural lives?’ I answer this question through interviews with thirty-two black Brits in professional occupations, and ethnographic work across middle-class spaces in London. I argue there are three black middle-class identity modes – …
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Feeding Temple Town: A Digital Project Exploring Food, Politics, and Community in North Philadelphia
… one of which is through food. Food reflects class, culture, gender, labor, urbanization, and it acts as a unique lens into the negative and positive aspects of the new cultural landscape Temple has crafted. The stories shared in this project seek to highlight the hidden narratives that …
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The Making of Blindness in Ontario: Incarceration and Class Formation, 1872–1926
… Canadians from waged labour, generating an underclass of precarious and oft-wageless proletarians. Institutionalization socialized the workers-in-training within a prison-like environment where punishments like whippings and beatings, solitary confinement, and material deprivation were …
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