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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"downward mobility"”.
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Ageing and Downward Mobility in Later Life: The Negotiation of Life Chances by Vulnerable Older Persons in Singapore
… the post-retirement years have entailed downward socioeconomic mobility due mainly to the loss of earning capacity, lack of support, and higher financial precarity. Using primary data obtained from qualitative interviews with 36 vulnerable older men and women from the three major ethnic …
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How social status shapes U.S. children’s beliefs about social mobility
… that shape their everyday lives. Social mobility is a core mechanism through which societies either challenge or maintain existing inequalities. The present study examined how U.S. children’s social status—both experimentally manipulated and measured at the national level—shapes their …
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Autobiography as self-defense in the works of Agnes Newton-Keith and Michelle Kennedy
… POW's and the American females experiencing downward mobility. This thesis will also show how language uncovers and decodes the presence of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder not often associated with women in poverty.</p>
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Autobiography as self-defense in the works of Agnes Newton-Keith and Michelle Kennedy
… POW's and the American females experiencing downward mobility. This thesis will also show how language uncovers and decodes the presence of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder not often associated with women in poverty.</p>
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Three Papers on the Black-White Mobility Gap in the United States
… will understate the magnitude of the black-white mobility gap. The results also indicate that two methods substantially mitigate this selection bias: having a long panel, or imputing data in a short panel. Paper 2: Measuring the Black-White Mobility Gap: A Comparison of Datasets and Methods …
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Of Roads and Revolutions: Peasants, Property, and the Politics of Development in La LIbertad, Chontales (1895-1995)
… migration and population movements, upward and downward mobility) and structured by forms of accumulation rooted in extractive economic practices and forms of dependent-commercial capitalism on the one hand, and the politics of state - including municipal - formative dynamics on the other. The …
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Gothic Slumming: Realist Writers and Gothic Texts in Progressive Era America
… of class boundaries, the threat of downward mobility, and the reality of class in a democratic society, were expressed in Progressive Era gothic realist fiction. Concluding with a larger consideration of the canonical fortunes of gothic realist works, I contend that the critical void …
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The Lived Experience of Chinese American Christians in Family Life
… land where they have experienced discrimination, downward mobility (Zhou, 2009), and acculturative stress.</p> <p>Second generation Chinese American Christians struggle with conflict with their parents and their ties to Chinese American culture, values and Christian faith (Sam Kim & Park, 2012). …
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Perspectives of Stress and Coping among Older, College-Educated African American Women
… stress, and (4) financial strain and threats of downward mobility. Women described diverse coping strategies to buffer stress. Primary coping strategies used include (1) sisterhood (i.e. friendships), (2) religion and spirituality, (3) community care, (4) self-care, and (5) self-numbing …
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Essays on driving factors of migration: From regional to metro perspectives
… of gentrification from a novel perspective of downward mobility. Ding et al. (2016) was the first to find that although residents with low credit scores and without a mortgage were no more likely to exit gentrifying neighborhoods than their counterparts in non-gentrifying neighborhoods, …
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"Social class consciousness and consumer culture in transition—exploring the ""new poor"" in Taiwan and the U.S."
… social class can be signaled and reproduced in downward mobility, as well as how social class remains a key mechanism that mediates lifestyle variations in the contemporary marketplace."
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Unsettled elites: reproducing the hacendado in neoliberal Ecuador
… hacendado elite strategies for resisting downward mobility on the social ladder and challenges to their privileged position as the possessors of legitimate culture. To fortify social boundaries, neoliberal and nationalist elite discourses about the transformative power of education and …
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Making an exit: Millennials, place-making, and exodus at South Korea’s edge
… is an ethnography of a contemporary ‘exodus’ of downwardly mobile middle-class millennials from Seoul, the political, cultural and economic center of South Korea, to Jeju Island, a semi-rural farming, fishing and tourism island south of the Korean peninsula. I argue that this mass relocation to …