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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"middle classes"”.
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Gentlemen landowners and the middle classes of Bromley: the transfer of power and wealth? 1840-1914
… and wealth held by the landed gentry and the middle classes during the period 1840 to 1914. This was accomplished by focusing on the town of Bromley, Kent, which historians and modern commentators alike have championed as the archetypal middle-class suburb. The thesis begins with an in-depth …
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Defining the middle classes: using Bourdieu's trilogy of habitus, capital and field to deconstruct the reproduction of middle-class privilege
This is a thesis about the middle classes. Using Bourdieu's trilogy of habitus, capital and field, the thesis attempts to capture the logic of practice embedded in middle-class decision-making. Drawing on longitudinal, qualitative research across two sixth-form institutions, I explore how young …
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Longing and belonging : an ethnographic study of migration, cultural capital and social change among Ho Chi Minh City's re-emerging middle classes
… firstly, aims to clarify what it means to be middle-class in post-doi mai urban Vietnam; and secondly, aims to consider the possibilities of postsocialism in Vietnam, especially in urban social life.
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The middle class in Halifax, 1780-1850
In recent years, regional works on the British middle class in the nineteenth century have derived the methodology to clarify the widely divergent situations of social relationships and economic, political and social activities of the middle class in provincial towns in the nineteenth century. This …
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The mechanics of urban land development in Huddersfield 1770-1911
… took place, firstly amongst the upper middle classes and after 1880 amongst the lower middle classes. Consequently the Ramsden Estate's near monopoly of development land declined" and that Estate found it increasingly difficult to let land on the terms and conditions it wished. …
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The politics of injustice rhetoric and poverty in Reagan's America
… got richer at the expense of the working and middle classes. Despite this trend towards greater economic inequality, the public expressed its sympathy for the Reagan administration and the conservative political agenda in a variety of ways. The question therefore arises: Why was there no …
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American Manpower: Work and Masculinity in the 1970s
… white men over the age of 20 in the working and middle classes, and what occurred because of the relationship between work and that masculinity. To understand 3 the third, it is necessary to understand the first two, and what happened in both cases during the decade. Even disregarding the …
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Shanghaization of Mumbai: visions, displacements, contestations
… national and subnational state, and the urban middle classes. ~As a model of development, Shanghaization is narrowly focused on growth rather than broad-based development. As an entrepreneurial model, it privileges the urban middle-classes and does not address structural poverty and inequality …
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Thomas Morley and the business of music in Elizabethan England
… London placed him amongst the educated, urban, middle classes. Rising literacy and improving standards of living in English cities helped to develop a society in which amateur music-making became a significant leisure activity, providing a market of consumers for printed recreational music. His …
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Ideology and Clothes: The Rise and Decline of Socialist Official Fashion
… of socialism their need to dress up their new middle classes in civilian clothes. The socialist regimes failed to invent a new socialist dress. Instead, they embraced the most traditional aesthetics in dress and the most conventional notion of gender. I demonstrate that similarities and …
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The attrition of dogma in the legal press under Brezhnev : Literaturnaya gazeta (Second Section), 1967-1971
… by the authorities, to placate the educated middle classes demoralized by the conservative backlash. It is argued in this study that, although the paper accepted the political parameters of the post-Thaw conservative leadership, as evinced, in particular, by the extreme limitations of the …
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"On Wings of Everlasting Power: G. W. M. Reynolds and ""Reynolds's Newspaper"", 1848-1876"
… revolution, he urged the disenfranchised working classes to agitate for reform. He and his newspaper maintained a consistently republican political philosophy throughout his tenure as editor, interpreting political, economic, and legal news in light of that philosophy. Although he accepted that …
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Sir Stafford Northcote: A Political Study to 1874
… unknown involvement in a newspaper for the middle classes and a surprisingly close relationship with the Queen, Northcote also had a key role in repealing the old Navigation Acts in 1849; in organizing the Great Exhibition of 1851, the first world's fair; in promoting schools for destitute …
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Decoding Musical Resistance: English Vocal Music in the Service of the King, 1625--1660
… in popular culture in an effort to reach middle-class audiences, which affected both the texts and the music. Classical knowledge and cosmopolitan themes were injected into mainstream street and tavern culture and traditional, tuneful music styles were adopted into art song, resulting in …
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Wie man ein 'Weltfest des Pferdesports' erfindet - Das Aachener Spring-, Reit- und Fahrturnier 1924 bis 1939
… and the personal world of the aristocracy, the middle classes and the working classes all existed and interacted at the same time to create a community festival of which the bourgeois elites of Aachen took guidance. In order to give a clear survey of the situation, the dissertation is structured …
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Understanding Racial Differences In Aspiration Realization: Middle Income, Middle Class, And College-Going Behaviors
… Literature shows that membership in the middle class generally equips one with greater resources that prepare them for college. If such research is accurate, middle class African American students should possess college preparatory resources and attend college. Because this is not the …
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"Not Free, Merely Licensed": The Black Middle Class As Political Language
The Black middle class has been a subject of intense debate in the last twenty years. Much of the debate has centered on the existence of the Black middle class and whether their status is permanent. Using, J.G.A. Pocock's, concept of "political language," I plan to examine the Black middle class …
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The Workers' Educational Association and the Pursuit of Oxford Idealism, 1909-1949
… first, it organised university tutorial classes to foster mutual learning and fellowship between intellectuals and workers; second, it campaigned for a state-funded ‘educational highway’, from nursery to university, so that every citizen would have the opportunity to receive the kind of …
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The South African Commercial Advertiser and the making of middle class identity in early nineteenth-century Cape Town
… place of the press in the reform agenda of the middle classes in Cape Town. It explores contemporary notions about the nature of the rational public sphere and its basis in a literate culture. The second chapter explores the reconstruction of social space in Cape Town and the way in which these …
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