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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"class power"”.
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Women and class: Power dynamics in contemporary Mexican literature and culture
… examines the representation of working-class women in the literary and cultural production of 20th Century Mexico. Chapter 2, “Sirvientas, Patronas, and Housework: The Place of Domestic Work in Mexican Culture,” looks at the relationships between women of opposing social strata in texts …
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Design and Construction of Controls for a Kv/Mva Class Power Electronics Testing Facility
… to facilitate research and testing of kV/MVA class power electronics systems, Virginia Tech has constructed the High-Power lab facility. This lab supports testing of equipment operating at up to 1.3 MW, with maximum supply ratings of 4,160 V or 480 A, depending on how the system is configured. …
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Inequalities in Schools: Socio-Economic Background Or Culture, Method Of Curriculum Transmission And Language
Berstein's analysis of the social class assumptions of pedagogic practice is the foundation for linking micro educational processes to the macro sociological levels of structure and class/power relations .Berstein's project seeks to link micro processes ( Language transmission and pedagogy ) to how …
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Leisure and Conversation in the Fin de Siècle Novel
… century. This era saw the rise of middle-class power and promised the reward of upward mobility to those who embraced bourgeois values. The texts under discussion in this study illuminate the ways in which social climbers can perform the class to which they aspire by adopting patterns of …
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Reproductive Health in the Philippines: Poverty, Religiosity, and Navigating Reproductive Choices
… that while the Catholic Church has played a powerful role in influencing legislation that has limited access to SRH services intended for low-income women, low-income women’s demonstrations of varying levels of agency by internalizing, subverting, or challenging such restrictions suggests the …
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Class-based Structural Violence in Britain
… identifies and analyses the major patterns of class-based structural violence (based on the differential access to class power) in some of the main areas of social organisation in Britain in the period from 1979 to 2010 (the period of neoliberal consolidation in Britain). It does this by …
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Efficient and Scalable Computing for Resource-Constrained Cyber-Physical Systems: A Layered Approach
… Therefore, the computing systems that power these resource-constrained cyber-physical systems (RCCPSs) have to achieve high efficiency and scalability. First of all, given a fixed amount of onboard energy, these computing systems should not only be power-efficient but also exhibit …
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Democracy and the Politics of Social Citizenship in India
… and universal social policies accompanied by empowering outcomes while others, similar in many ways, do not? If lower-class integration and programmatic commitment steers policy outcomes to be more egalitarian, what explains the variance in redistributive commitment within the cluster of radical …
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PEDAGOGY, SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION, AND SPACE: TOWARD A REVOLUTIONARY CRITICAL PEDAGOGY FOR SPACE
… two terms here, neoliberalism and the global class war. I argue that the former is a necessary but ultimately insufficient framework for understanding the present moment, and that the latter provides a necessary supplement because it looks at the global project of the restoration of capitalist …
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Mega Sport and the Gentrification of Public Space
… demonstrates how police and governmental power are mobilized to secure accumulation, to impose social control and to extend the power and arsenal of neoliberalism and the security state apparatus. Through mega sporting events, security and gentrification are not only integral to the …
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Education, Aristocracy, and Morality in the Political Thought of François Guizot
… complex causes behind the reproduction of middle-class power, which emerged over a long period of historical change. The thesis also challenges previous characterisations of Guizot’s thought, which often portray his views on education as part of his broader anti-pluralist conception of state …
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Very High Speed Coherent Passive Optical Networks
… ended photodiode. For further improvement of the power budget, linear and non-linear pre-distortion techniques are in- vestigated. The solution with the balanced photodiode exceeds the E1 class power budget requirement (>33 dB), whereas the single ended photodiode solution meets the N1 class …
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Democracy and the media in developing countries : a case study of the Philippines
… the relationships between the Philippine media, class power and the state. It focusses particularly on the economic and political actors and agencies, including the press, which have promoted or hindered democratisation in the Philippines during the decade 1983-1993. It argues that although the …
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Negotiating differences in mixed marriages - Christians and Muslims in Greece
… conversion, intersections between gender, class, power and agency and potential of intermarriage for sociocultural transformations through interactions, exchanges and reciprocity of mixed couples and their extended families in transnational and translocal social networks.
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Paradigms of social stratification: the contemporary power elite debate
… and political science over the distribution of power on a national level (i.e., the Power Elite controversy), from a sociology of knowledge perspective. Three general theoretical positions were identified and analyzed in detail. The first of these is the pluralist or “multi-influence hypothesis” …