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Showing 1 to 20 of 101 for “"lower-class"”.
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Factors influencing aspiration and achievement in lower-class Negro children
Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries
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Factors influencing aspiration and achievement in lower-class Negro children
Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries
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Racial differences in television usage among lower-class urban teen-agers
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Communication, 1968
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Individual Modernity, Its Determinants and Consequences: A Study of Lower-Class Fertility in Guatemala
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-11T17:49:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7317100.pdf: 5957172 bytes, checksum: 34d0298add7574f7e129e41627da565a (MD5) Previous issue date: 1972
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Achievement Training Given to Six-Year-Old Boys and Girls by Lower-Class and Middle-Class Mothers
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-12T19:55:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7811286.pdf: 5115168 bytes, checksum: bb2b772d64f8ce40f87429db7728ea8f (MD5) Previous issue date: 1978
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Teacher - Pupil Relationship as Related to the Self-Concept, Need Achievement, and Internal Locus of Control of Lower-Class Children
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-08T21:24:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6706648.pdf: 7270417 bytes, checksum: 109e1422c84185f5a62ce306f2200175 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1966
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The relationship of birth order and socioeconomic status to the creativity of preschool children
The creativity of 68 middle- and lower-class Caucasian preschool children attending a nursery school, kindergarten, or day-care center in Southwestern Virginia was measured by an object-identification originality test developed by Elizabeth K. Starkweather at the Oklahoma State University. Each …
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Effects of the working class label: increased affect and social class identification
… model of the self, we show that relatively lower-class individuals who value their social class identity (as activated by the “working class” label) experience elevated group identification and well-being. First, we found that social class identification significantly predicted self-esteem …
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Democracy and the Politics of Social Citizenship in India
… 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 democracies? These questions are examined in the context of two …
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Participatory rural appraisal approaches, to improve public participation in South African EIA
… Interested and Affected Parties (I&APs) from the lower- to upper-class citizens in society. However, research suggests that the lower-class citizenes in South Africa are not participating in PP meetings, although legislation, like the Constitution and National Environmental Management Act for …
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Impact of Class-based Prejudice toward Defendants and Victims on Mock Jurors' Decision-Making
… to address the lack of attention paid to social class in the context of juror decision-making. The effect of social class was evaluated using a theoretical framework of justification-suppression of prejudice and intergroup threat. Across two trial simulation studies, the social class of the …
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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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The effect of study trips followed by discussion on vocabulary development of kindergarten pupils
… Seventy-nine pupils, selected from three classrooms in three rural school districts, were classified as middle-class Anglo-American, lower-class Anglo-American, and lower-class Mexican-American. Two of the three classes were designated as experimental and one as the control class.</p><p> …
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Jailbreakers, Villains, and Vampires: Representations of Criminality in Early-Victorian Popular Texts
… which were cheap publications marketed to lower-class readers. Such popular lower-class texts are rife with criminals and crimes yet their representations of criminality remain understudied. This penny literature often reproduces prevailing middle-class discourses about criminality, but …
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The Task Variable in Children's Language Use: Cultural and Situational Differences
… for the widespread educational failure of lower-class minority children. The belief is that the way language is used in the home systematically places minority children at a disadvantage at school. This study represents an attempt to test this hypothesis.
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A factorial survey experiment to examine how the class background and perceived gender of job applicants influences shortlisting decisions for entry‐level academic posts in higher education in England
… research on the mechanisms that reproduce class advantage and disadvantage in higher education (HE) has focused on students, with limited attention paid to class discrimination in the academic labour market. Whilst numerous studies have explored the effect of applicant gender on hiring …
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Folklorization and Afro-Ecuadorian music in Esmeraldas: discourses of vergüenza and projects of revalorización
… landscape that exacerbated economic and social class differences. Most pertinent to this thesis, such socio-economic class differences were manifested in performances of Afro-Esmeraldeño music. The marimba and its accompanying instruments became associated with the lower class, causing some …
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Dirt Road Magic
… fiction centered on the round portrayal of lower-class characters. The novel is comprised of series of interlocking stories that center on the denizens of a trailer park as they have run-ins with ditch wizards, rich exploitative magicians, and other supernatural phenomena. This book is based …
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Tattoos and the interaction process: managing a tattooed identity
… years. Once something deemed worthy for only the lower-class echelons of society, tattooing is now practiced by those from a wide variety of classes, statuses, and demographic compositions. After providing a brief account of the historical and contemporary views associated with tattooing, this …
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Deconstructing the mole: a sociological narrative study that explores the mole concept experiences of science students and lecturers, in the context of social justice
… The findings indicate that, students from lower-class background find the difficulties pose by the mole concept, much more challenging than the higher-class students. The higher-class learners are better equipped to deal with mole related difficulties because of their superior social …
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