upper class - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library

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Women of the Upper Class

Book by Susan A. Ostrander; Temple University Press, 1984

Subjects:

Married Women--United States--Case Studies, Upper Class--United States--Case Studies

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Women of the Upper Class Women in the Political Economy, a series...Ronnie J. Steinberg Women of the Upper Class Susan A. Ostrander TEMPLE UNIVERSITY...Ostrander, Susan A. Women of the upper class. Women in the political economy...
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The "Better Angels" of Capitalism: Rhetoric, Narrative, and Moral Identity among Men of the American Upper Class

Book by Andrew Herman; Westview Press, 1999

Subjects:

Philanthropists--United States--Language, Rich People--United States--Language, Upper Class--Moral And Ethical Aspects--United States, Wealth--Moral And Ethical Aspects--United States

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

What does it mean to be a man of wealth & power? How is the "worth" of wealth translated into moral worth in the identity of wealthy men? How does this identity comprise a mythical place of masculine desire in the social imagination of the American dream? These are the central themes The "Better ...
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What does it mean to be a man of wealth & power? How is the "worth" of wealth translated into moral worth in the identity of wealthy men? How does this identity comprise a mythical place of masculine desire in the social imagination of the American dream? These are the central themes The "Better Angels" of Capitalism explores. Beginning with a series of ethnographic interviews of a variety of wealthy American men, Andrew Herman draws upon diverse perspectives to present a coherent exploration of the sociopolitical implications of being wealthy in an economically unequal-& increasingly unstable-society.
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Matrona Docta: Educated Women in the Roman Aelite from Cornelia to Julia Domna

Book by Emily A. Hemelrijk; Routledge, 1999

Subjects:

Rome--Civilization, Rome--Social Life And Customs, Upper Class Women--Education--Rome--History, Upper Class Women--Rome--History, Upper Class Women--Rome--Intellectual Life

Collections: History, Entire Library

Matrona Docta presents a unique study of the education of upper-class women in Roman society in the central period of Roman history, from the second century BC to AD 235.Emily A. Hemelrijk reconstructs women's opportunities to acquire an education, the impediments they faced, the level of education ...
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Matrona Docta presents a unique study of the education of upper-class women in Roman society in the central period of Roman history, from the second century BC to AD 235.Emily A. Hemelrijk reconstructs women's opportunities to acquire an education, the impediments they faced, the level of education they could reach and the judgement on educated women in Roman society. She examines also the role of women as patronesses of literature, learning and Roman women's writing.
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Preparing for Power: America's Elite Boarding Schools

Book by Peter W. Cookson, Caroline Hodges Persell; Basic Books, 1985

Subjects:

Preparatory Schools--United States, Upper Class--Education (Secondary)--United States

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...schools is largely confined to the upper class, the upper-middle class, and a...of the hallmarks of the American upper class is its Anglophilia, and a good...the nation, where the American upper class sends its sons to instill the classic...
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Charity Begins at Home: Generosity and Self-Interest among the Philanthropic Elite

Book by Teresa Odendahl; Basic Books, 1990

Subjects:

Charities--United States--Case Studies, Philanthropists--United States--Attitudes--Case Studies, Upper Class--United States--Case Studies

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...revel with equals or aspirants in upper-class solidarity. I also partook of...maintenance and perpetuation of the upper class in the United States. In this...philanthropy are usually members of the upper class, not everyone in this class endorses...

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The New Upper-Middle Class Residential Experience: A Case Study of Apartment Flats in Jordan Using the Logics of Burden, Hillier and Hanson

Journal article by Shatha Malhis; Architectural Science Review, Vol. 51, 2008

Subjects:

Apartments--Case studies, Apartments--Design and construction, Architectural design--Evaluation, Jordan--Buildings and facilities, Jordan--Social aspects, Middle class--Homes and haunts, Middle class--Social aspects, Middle classes--Homes and haunts, Middle classes--Social aspects

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The New Upper-Middle Class Residential Experience: A Case Study...time career activities affected upper middle-class groups. This encouraged new practices...apartment buildings inhabited by the upper middle class and bourgeoisie, it restricted itself...
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Newly Recognized Pathways of Exposure to Lead in the Middle-Income Home

Journal article by Laurel Sharmer, Kathlynn Northrup-Snyder, Wenyen Juan; Journal of Environmental Health, Vol. 70, 2007

Subjects:

Antiques--Marketing, Consumer behavior--Evaluation, Environmental health--Research, Home decor accessories--Composition, Home decor accessories--Contamination, Interior design accessories--Composition, Interior design accessories--Contamination, Lead poisoning--Prevention, Lead poisoning--Risk factors, Upper class--Surveys, Upper classes--Surveys

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...the introduction of antique painted artifacts into middle and upper-income American homes. The term "shabby chic" was coined and...of the stores were clearly set up to appeal to the middle- or upper-income shopper and were located in shopping malls or on quaint...
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Constituting Class and Crime in Upper Canada: the Sentencing of Narcotics Offenders, Circa 1908-1953

Journal article by Clayton Mosher, John Hagan; Social Forces, Vol. 72, 1994

Subjects:

Social Problems, Social Service

Collections: Entire Library

...disproportionately lenient treatment of upper-class narcotics offenders, combined with...54 .40 .65 .48 .66 .47 Upper class .02 .15 .03 .17 .02 .13...working-class occupation, and an upper-class occupation, treating "middleclass...
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Transformation of Family Ideology in Upper-Middle-Class Families in Urban South Korea

Journal article by Myung-Hye Kim; Ethnology, Vol. 32, 1993

Subjects:

Family--Korea, South, Middle classes--Korea, South, South Korea--Social aspects

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...Transformation of family ideology in upper-middle-class families in urban South Korea...according to the Marxian conception of class. Upper-middle-class families in this...but the central authority of the upper-class (yangban) used the functions of...
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Catholics and the Upper Middle Class: a Comment on Roof

Journal article by Wade Clark Roof; Social Forces, Vol. 59, 1981

Subjects:

Social Problems, Social Service

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Catholics and the Upper Middle Class: A Comment on Roof ANDREW...are then solidly in the white upper middle class. For my thesis, no more than this...won their places not only in the upper middle class, but in the upper decile of American...

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The Upper Class, Up for Grabs

Magazine article by Nelson W. Aldrich Iv; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 17, Summer 1993

Subjects:

Social conflict--Political aspects, United States--Politics and government, Upper classes--Political activity

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The upper class, up for grabs by Nelson W. Aldrich...elite, now dispersed, called the WASP upper class. The marketing pitch is faithfully echoed...Ralph Lauren wants to make, the WASP upper class before 1929 held undisputed sway over...
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Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There

Magazine article; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 285, June 2000

Subjects:

Popular culture, Social class--United States, United States

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Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There. by David...a condition endured by chattering-class Bobos, whose pay tends to be much more...poor and the impatient lower-middle class are now, as always, with us. When Brooks...
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Polite Accomplishments: Anthony Fletcher Delves into the Diaries of Teenage Girls in the Georgian and Victorian Eras to Explore the Little-Changing Constraints, Punishments and Occasional Delights of Being Brought Up a Girl in Upper-Class Britain before the Great War

Magazine article by Anthony Fletcher; History Today, Vol. 58, April 2008

Subjects:

British history, Diaries--Social aspects, Teenage girls--Social aspects, Victorian values

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Delights of Being Brought Up a Girl in Upper-Class Britain before the Great War...insight into the upbringing of upper-class girls in Georgian and Victorian...familiar and essential member of upper-class households where there were daughters...
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Upper-Class Conspriacy: Roger Scruton Wonders If NS Readers Are Allowed to Drink Wine

Magazine article by Roger Scruton; New Statesman, Vol. 130, December 10, 2001

Subjects:

Alcoholic beverage industry--Products, Corney and Barrow--Products, Wholesale industry--Products, Wine tasting--Personal narratives

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Upper-class Conspriacy: Roger Scruton wonders if NS readers are allowed to drink wine...wine as a gift of the gods, as a global threat to British drinking, as an upper-class conspiracy, as the best way to spend an evening on ones own, as the right...
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The Media Column: Cameron and Osborne Give the Impression They Run Some Sort of Charity, Rescuing Upper-Class Waifs and Strays from Ruination. What Tory Party Members Make of It All Is Anyone's Guess

Magazine article by Peter Wilby; New Statesman, Vol. 134, October 24, 2005

Subjects:

Cocaine--Usage, Newspapers--Political aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...the Impression They Run Some Sort of Charity, Rescuing Upper-Class Waifs and Strays from Ruination. What Tory Party Members...impression they run a sort of outreach charity, rescuing upper-class waifs and strays from drug-induced ruination, and restoring...

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Sam's Not Such a Numbskull; Sam West Tells CHRIS HUGHES How He Ended Up Poking Fun at the Upper-Class Twerps That He Usually Plays

Newspaper article by Chris Hughes; The Mirror (London, England), June 12, 1998

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

...How He Ended Up Poking Fun at the Upper-Class Twerps That He Usually Plays...playing well-meaning but thick upper-class suitors to the likes of Helena...far is playing Edward, a moronic upper-class twit in the "Tim-nice-but-dim...
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Upper Class!

Newspaper article by Louise Oswald; The People (London, England), June 9, 1996

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

Upper Class! by Louise Oswald Summer is...two-stage plan to strengthen and streamline your upper body - arms, chest, back and shoulders. Mum-of-two...Beverley says: "Being strong and firm in your upper body means you will automatically have better...
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Prepare for theF *** Ing Fulfords- They're the Upper-Class Osbournes; EVEN OZZY MIGHT BLUSH AT THE FOUL OUTBURSTS OF REALITY TV ARISTOCRATS

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), August 6, 2004

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

Prepare for theF *** Ing Fulfords- Theyre the Upper-Class Osbournes; EVEN OZZY MIGHT BLUSH AT THE FOUL OUTBURSTS...uttering: "B******s to it." The F***ing Fulfords is upper-class Britain as youve never seen it - and may not believe...
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NBA Upper-Class Worried Only about the Benjamins

Newspaper article by Tom Knott; The Washington Times, November 20, 1998

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

NBA upper-class worried only about the Benjamins by Tom Knott Michael Jordan...eternal. Billy Hunter is not motivated by the no-name players or the middle-class, although he claims to feel their pain. Hunter does not show up to the...
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Failed Suicide Bid, Two Bad Marriages and a Wicked Stepmother. Is Julia the Original Poor Little Rich Girl?; Upper-Class Author Reveals the Warts-and-All Lifestyle of the Aristocrats Which Inspired Her Steamy Novels

Newspaper article by Donna White; Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland), April 9, 2000

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

...Poor Little Rich Girl?; Upper-Class Author Reveals the Warts-and-All...dreadful sin among her class - exposing their lifestyle in her books. "The upper-classes really dont like...believed in keeping that stiff upper lip." That night 10 years...

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Amateur

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

AMATEUR in sports, one who engages in athletic competition without material recompense. Upper-class Englishmen in the 19th cent. used the concept to help define their social status, first applying the term to sportsmen who did...
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Scarsdale

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...SE N.Y., a residential suburb of New York City; settled c.1701, inc. 1915. Scarsdale is often considered typical of upper-class suburban communities. See C. OConnor, A Sort of Utopia: Scarsdale, 1881 1981 (1983). ____________________ The...
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Cavalier Poets

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...and his exiled son. Most of their work was done between c.1637 and 1660. Their poetry embodied the life and culture of upper-class, pre-Commonwealth England, mixing sophistication with naivete, elegance with raciness. Writing on the courtly themes...
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Druids

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...and from Old Irish sagas, supplemented to some extent by archaeological evidence. The druids constituted a priestly upper class in command of a highly ritualistic religion, which apparently centered on the worship of a pantheon of nature deities...
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Norman Conquest

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...England was quick and brutal. The members of the Anglo-Saxon upper class who were not killed in the battle of Hastings were almost...Norman French became the language of the court and upper classes, and of literature, and had great effect on the...

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