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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"classism"”.
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Not So Magical: Issues with Racism, Classism, and Ideology in Harry Potter
<p>Although it is primarily a young adult fantasy series, the <em>Harry Potter </em>books are also focused on the battle against racial purification and the threat of a strictly homogeneous magical society. This thesis examines the intricacies and depth of the racial ideologies presented in the …
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An exploration of first-generation college students' experiences of classism, belonging, and academic resilience
Though understanding of first-generation college students’(FGCS) unique experiences has grown, quantitative research has historically neglected the structural barriers FGCS navigate, as well as the knowledge and skills (i.e., cultural wealth) they use to succeed despite these barriers. To address …
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Trainee Attitudes Toward Social Class as Predictors of Clinical Decision Making: Exploring the Effects of Classism in Psychotherapy
<p>The current study examined the effects of classist beliefs on trainee attitudes toward their client based on perceived social-class status. This study sought to determine whether classist attitudes contribute to meaningful differences in clinical decision making. A sample of mental health …
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The Relationship Between Multicultural Competency Training and Self-Efficacy in School Counselors-in-Training: Understanding of Social Class and Classism Competency Training
… counselors to address issues of social class and classism. The purpose of this study was to understand the relationship between SCITs multicultural competency training and their self-efficacy in social class and classism training regardless of race/ethnicity and gender. This quantitative study …
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Hierarchy Attenuating/Enhancing Organizational Environments and Intergroup Attitudes: Relationship of Racism, Classism, and Sexism in Multiracial and Monoracial Churches of the United States
… and hierarchy-enhancing environments affect classism and sexism attitudes among congregations. The finding shows that multiracial churches promote H-A environment for class and race diversity, but not for gender equality. The class and race diversity is affected by organizational structure; …
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Describing Counselors' Social Class and Socioeconomic Status Understanding and Awareness
… and socioeconomic status, and issues related to classism. Four themes emerged related to social class understanding and awareness: income/money, social class designations, social status, and the places people live. Three themes surfaced linked to socioeconomic status understanding and awareness: …
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Labor violations and discrimination in the Clark County outcall entertainment industry
… practices and institutional sexism, racism, and classism in the Clark County outcall entertainment ("escort") industry. To analyze these issues from a sex radical feminist perspective, I spent 820 hours engaged in covert participant observation while working as an appointment setter at two major …
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The Impacts of Exclusionary Zoning Practices and Gentrification on Low-Income and Minority Populations in America's Inner Cities
… between housing inequalities and institutional classism and racism. In addition, the research will examine the use of public policies and regulations that maintain the existing isolation and concentration of minorities and low-income families through disinvestment.
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Women of Color Collectives in Doctoral Education: How Women of Color Doctoral Students Thrive Together
… which are marred by the interstices of racism, classism, sexism, and the hetero patriarchy that upholds the structure of white supremacy in higher education (Gay, 2004; Peña, 2022). However, there is a legacy of Women of Color who have created and continue to create collectives to survive and, …
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From the Margins to the Center: A Qualitative Study Giving Voice to Black Women in Athletic Training Education Programs
… findings revealed that (1) racism, sexism and classism persist as barriers to success, (2) mentoring promotes matriculation and successful college completion and credentialing of Black women ATSs, (3) mentoring also protects Black women ATSs against racism, sexism and classism, (4) although …
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Strong Black Woman Archetype in Organizational Life
… women face multiple jeopardies—racism, sexism, classism—as they navigate American society (King, 1988). With more Black families economically depending on Black women, and as their presence within the U.S. workforce continues to increase, it is vital that we better understand their experiences …
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Is the conservation of classical liberal thought inherent in the doctrine of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?
… scrutinized: freedom and rights, equality and classism, and the nature of man. Also, Section 134 of the Doctrine and Covenants--which defines the proper role of government, the proper role of citizens, and the importance of religious freedom--is explored. (Abstract shortened by UMI.).
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NIMBY Effects on Low-Income Housing Policy: A Case of Two Cities
… NIMBY related issues. Also, traffic concerns, classism, and ageism were found to be prevalent NIMBY concerns. The strategies used included early engagement of residents, studies being conducted to identify credible issues, and the use of the judicial system. The methods outlined were the best …
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An Exploration of Dual Identity in Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street
… by her experiences with poverty, discrimination, classism, and gender expectations. Esperanza wants to overcome the oppression outside her community and the patriarchal society in her community by moving away from Mango Street and becoming a writer. She has to find a way to bridge the gap between …
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Destroying the wall : in search of "unity in difference" in 'Onjeong' biblical hermeneutics on the basis of Korean and South African political and cultural contexts
… in the name of imperialism, nationalism, classism, racism, and liberation movement. In addition, each type of Korean and South African cultural Bible readers dissolved the tension of difference on the dialectical dimension of "questing for sameness" towards "becoming Christians." However, …
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Women and the American Wilderness: Responses to Landscape and Myth
… thereby often reinforcing the racism and classism of her time. As I argue in chapter two, the real life Isabella Bird had to carefully negotiate between her own desires for wilderness adventure and socially-sanctioned standards of femininity. In order to maintain a respectable front, Bird …
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The Time of Liberation: Angela Davis's Prison Abolition and Giorgio Agamben's Coming Community
… – focusing primarily on the tenets of racism, classism, and capitalism – and take an interdisciplinary approach to advancing her call for prison abolition by way of Giorgio Agamben’s radical adjustments to traditional discourses about ontology in his work <em>The Coming Community. …
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The role of environmental justice in the fight against gentrification
… economics to challenge the systemic racism and classism within existing land use and environmental policies that promote gentrification. From these organizations, planners can learn to prevent gentrification through measuring the gentrification potential of their projects, creating interagency …
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Towards an Organizational Strategic Vitality Theory: A Study of a Public Sector Board of Directors
… In addition to these findings, organizational classism was identified as a major impediment to strategic implementation.</p>
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Power gained-power lost: aspects of contemporary African women visualised
… combined forms of oppression such as racism, classism and sexism. Black women have been dispossessed through the construction of their identity by others and through the breaking up of families by the practice of apartheid. Yet when I examine my history, the strength of women is evident in …
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