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Books on: privileged class

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Class Counts: Student Edition

Book by Erik Olin Wright; Cambridge University Press, 2000

Subjects:

Class Consciousness, Social Classes, Social Mobility

Collections: Entire Library

This textbook provides a lively and penetrating exploration of the concept of class and its relevance for understanding a wide range of issues in contemporary society. The book presents a sophisticated account of the theoretical foundations in an accessible and engaging manner. It then explores ...
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This textbook provides a lively and penetrating exploration of the concept of class and its relevance for understanding a wide range of issues in contemporary society. The book presents a sophisticated account of the theoretical foundations in an accessible and engaging manner. It then explores class using cross-national comparative data on topics such as social mobility, housework, friendship patterns, class structure and class consciousness. This Student Edition of Class Counts thus combines Wright's sophisticated account of central and enduring questions in social theory with practical analyses of detailed social problems.
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Beyond Silenced Voices: Class, Race, and Gender in United States Schools

Book by Lois Weis, Michelle Fine; State University of New York Press, 1993

Subjects:

Discrimination In Education--United States, Educational Equalization--United States, Minorities--Education--United States, Power (Social Sciences), Sex Discrimination In Education--United States, Sexism In Education--United States, Women--Education--United States, Working Class--Education--United States

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...seriously bell hookss class for "plain talk...accessible only to the privileged. We ourselves would...among otherwise privileged groups, and insists that the voice of class and race privilege...assist the most privileged members of minority...educated middle class. 39 Other critics...
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Political Ideology and Class Formation: A Study of the Middle Class

Book by Carolyn Howe; Praeger Publishers, 1992

Subjects:

Ideology, Middle Class, Middle Class--United States, Professional Education--Social Aspects

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Howe presents an analysis of theories of the middle class, focusing on the class location and political ideology of three strata referred to as managers, "knowledge controllers," and semi-professionals. Five theories of the middle class are systematically examined: new class, new working class, new ...
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Howe presents an analysis of theories of the middle class, focusing on the class location and political ideology of three strata referred to as managers, "knowledge controllers," and semi-professionals. Five theories of the middle class are systematically examined: new class, new working class, new petit bourgeoisie, new labor aristocracy, and contradictory class locations. Using these five theories, the author offers an accessible analysis of recent debates within class analysis and stratification studies.
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Working with Class: Social Workers and the Politics of Middle-Class Identity

Book by Daniel J. Walkowitz; University of North Carolina Press, 1999

Subjects:

Group Identity--New York (State)--New York, Middle Class--United States, Social Workers--New York (State)--New York

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...way of denying a class "other" completely...the notion that a privileged few speculators...taxpaying middle class. Nixons campaigns...Great Society had "privileged" the poor. But...privatized middle-class family marked by lower birth rates, privileged children, and mothers...
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Middle Class Radicalism in Santa Monica

Book by Mark E. Kann; Temple University Press, 1986

Subjects:

Middle Class--California--Santa Monica--Case Studies, Radicalism--California--Santa Monica--History

Collections: Entire Library

...electoral mandate to leftist radicals? Why should privileged, middle class youth seek a radical mandate? What can middle...They self-consciously identified with their own privileged class; and they hoped to extract from middle class culture...

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Journal Articles on: privileged class

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Promoting Diversity and Social Justice: Educating People from Privileged Groups

Journal article by Mary F. Howard-Hamilton; Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 73, 2002

Subjects:

Promoting Diversity and Social Justice: Educating People from Privileged Groups. (Book)

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...assist educators who are teaching or facilitating a diversity class or program. The author provides strategies to reduce resistance...dimensions of social justice and the reasons why people from privileged groups would support social justice. Table 6.1, entitled "Costs...
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EMERGING CLASS IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA: The Telling of Difference

Journal article by Maria Rohatynskyj; Pacific Affairs, Vol. 74, 2001

Subjects:

Book reviews, Books--Book reviews, Emerging Class in Papua New Guinea: The Telling of Difference (Book)

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...subject to the same processes of class formation and distinction documented...processes as witnessed by their privileged education (p. 8-9) This effort...The one sees an entry into a more privileged class position tied to forcing a local...
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Class and Poetic Communities: The Works of Ellen Johnston, "The Factory Girl"

Journal article by Judith Rosen; Victorian Poetry, Vol. 39, 2001

Subjects:

English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Women poets--19th century, Working class--Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...are the volumes issued by it on almost every branch of knowledge, it is really a very difficult matter, except to a privileged class, to appear in print. -- Charles Fleming, The Working Mans Friend 6 To read a volume of working-class verse is...
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Working Class Protest, Popular Revolt, and Urban Insurrection in Argentina: The 1969 Cordobazo

Journal article by James P. Brennan, Monica B. Gordillo; Journal of Social History, Vol. 27, 1994

Subjects:

Cordoba, Argentina--Demonstrations, protests, etc., Revolutions--Argentina, Working class--Demonstrations, protests, etc.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...by the best paid and presumably most privileged sectors of the Argentine working class.(1) The Cordobazo, as the uprising...embourgeoisement" of at least the more privileged sectors of the working class in the United States also characterized...
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Finding Her Voice(s): The Development of a Working-Class Feminist Vision in Ethel Carnie's Poetry

Journal article by Patricia E. Johnson; Victorian Poetry, Vol. 43, 2005

Subjects:

Carnie, Ethel--Criticism and interpretation, Carnie, Ethel--Works, Women poets--Criticism and interpretation, Women poets--Works, Working class women--Criticism and interpretation, Working class women--Portrayals, Working class women--Works

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...injustice from the downtrodden and places it firmly on the privileged. 5 A number of themes that are recurrent in the poetry of such nineteenth-century working-class women as Jessie Russell and Janet Thomson Hamilton are also...

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Magazine Articles on: privileged class

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Class Warfare: It Is Wrong That America's Most Privileged Families Have Abandoned Military Service

Magazine article by Iii Josiah Bunting; American Scholar, Vol. 74, Winter 2005

Subjects:

Family--Social aspects, Military service, Voluntary--Analysis, Voluntary military service--Analysis

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Class Warfare: It Is Wrong That Americas Most Privileged Families Have Abandoned Military...within, these nurseries for the most privileged young people, the great boarding...reminds us, a Princeton graduating class, his own, sent 400 of its number...
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College and Social Class: The Broken Promise of America

Magazine article by John Raines, Charles Brian Mcadams; Cross Currents, Vol. 56, Spring 2006

Subjects:

Social class--Analysis, Social class--Forecasts and trends, Social classes--Analysis, Social classes--Forecasts and trends, United States--Demographic aspects, United States--Educational aspects, United States--Social aspects, Universities and colleges--Social aspects, Universities and colleges--United States

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Entire Library

...of the less than privileged) who have managed to survive the class war being fought...The powerful and privileged may think it is...interest to keep this class struggle off the...the feet of our privileged class today. Twenty years...
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Russian Workers under the Yeltsin Regime: Notes on a Class in Defeat

Magazine article by Vladimir Bilenkin; Monthly Review, Vol. 48, November 1996

Subjects:

Russia--Economic aspects, Working class--Russia

Collections: Entire Library

...unprosecuted. Many women are forced into prostitution as the only means to feed their children. While the sons of the new privileged class easily escape service in the army, the youth of the working class has been used as cannon fodder in the bloody civil...
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The City on the Hill: Temperance, Race, and Class in Turn-of-the-Century Pasadena

Magazine article by Michael E. James; California History, Vol. 80, Winter 2001

Subjects:

Cities and towns--Social policy, Pasadena, California--History, Race relations, Social class--California, Social classes--California, Temperance--California, Urban policy

Collections: History, Entire Library

...contradictory. Pasadenas elite were crafting a vision of a privileged class of residents and guests residing in grand homes and...PERFECTED The citys effort to exclude the working class was more than the expressed tension between labor and...
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The Busy Class

Magazine article; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 30, Spring 2006

Subjects:

Businessmen--Analysis, Businessmen--History, Proletariat--Analysis, Proletariat--Social aspects, Working class in television--Analysis, Working class in television--Social aspects, Working class--Analysis, Working class--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...they identified participants as members of the class of privilege. How things have changed! Today...working. The inescapable conclusion: "The most privileged now work more than the less privileged? In Gershunys view, several factors account...

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Newspaper Articles on: privileged class

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Privileged Class

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, August 19, 2003

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Privileged class. Byline: Christian Toto, THE WASHINGTON TIMES Privileged class Being born with a silver spoon in ones mouth isnt as easy as it sounds, or at least thats what E! Entertainment Television wants us to believe. "Young, Rich...
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Creating a Privileged Class of Taxpayers

Newspaper article by Paul Craig Roberts; The Washington Times, July 22, 1996

Subjects:

Republican Party

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Creating a privileged class of taxpayers by...applied to Americas middle class. Little wonder Republican...only a short step to privileged income tax status. After...But, of course, a privileged walled-off elite has...
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The Class Warrior Who Despises Educational Excellence (Apart from His Own Privileged Background); Unfounded Allegations: Children's Secretary Ed Balls

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), March 15, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

The Class Warrior Who Despises Educational...Excellence (Apart from His Own Privileged Background); Unfounded Allegations...Balls is an unreconstructed class warrior. Like many such zealots, he comesfrom an extremely privileged background. His zoologist...
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In a Class of His Own, the Most Privileged Schoolboy in Britain; GOING SOLO: John Anderson, 12, Is the Only Pupil at the School in out Skerries, Left

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), June 24, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

In a Class of His Own, the Most Privileged Schoolboy in Britain; GOING SOLO: John Anderson, 12, Is the Only Pupil at the School in out Skerries, Left. Byline: JANE SIMPSON...
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FOOTBALL: DREAM TEAM with Brian Laudrup; RANGERS Legend Brian Laudrup Was Privileged to Play with a World-Class Footballer in His Own Garden in the Shape of Big Brother Michael - Then Shared the Pitch with Superstars throughout a Superb Career. He Tells GAVIN BERRY His Top XI

Newspaper article; Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland), July 18, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

FOOTBALL: DREAM TEAM with Brian Laudrup; RANGERS Legend Brian Laudrup Was Privileged to Play with a World-Class Footballer in His Own Garden in the Shape of Big Brother Michael - Then Shared the Pitch with Superstars throughout a Superb Career...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: privileged class

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Patrician

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

PATRICIAN p trish n, member of the privileged class of ancient Rome. Two distinct classes appear to have come...Caesar and Augustus promoted plebeians to the patrician class. External marks of a patrician were a distinctive tunic and...
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Samurai

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Japan, retainers of the daimyo . This aristocratic warrior class arose during the 12th-century wars between the Taira and Minamoto...clans and was consolidated in the Tokugawa period. Samurai were privileged to wear two swords, and at one time had the right to cut down...
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Hara-Kiri

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Chinese equivalent, seppuku. It was practiced by the Japanese feudal warrior class in order to avoid falling into enemy hands. Around 1500, it became a privileged alternative to execution, granted to daimyo and samurai guilty of disloyalty...
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Spanish Civil War

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...fall of the monarchy in 1931, was at first dominated by middle-class liberals and moderate socialists, among them Niceto Alcala...Azana . They began a broad-ranging attack on the traditional, privileged structure of Spanish society: Some large estates were redistributed...
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Citizen

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...immunity of their cities from feudal dues, thereby achieving a privileged position and a power in local government; these rights were...and French revolutions. Today each country determines what class of persons are its citizens. In some countries citizenship...

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