Social Classes Research Papers

- by Danilo Martuscelli
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- Fascism, Social Classes, Estado, Fascismo
- by Colby King
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- Sociology of Work, Social Class, Social Classes, Working Class Studies
- by Barb Brents
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- Sociology, Economics, Anthropology, Political Economy
- by Siri Gloppen
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- Social Change, Social Movements, Social Policy, Political Theory

Artykuł jest komentarzem do reformy szkolnictwa wyższego przeprowadzonej w Polsce w roku 2019. Szczególny akcent polemiczny tekstu wiąże się z zakładaną w ramach reformy elitaryzacją studiów. Autor dowodzi, że cel ten nie zostanie osiągnięty, zaś rzeczywistym rezultatem reformy okażą się: stworzenie systemu edukacji, który utrudnia klasie ludowej dostęp do szkół wyższych, urynkowienie uczelni i pogłębiająca się izolacja uniwersytetu z życia społecznego. //
Abstract: The article is a critical commentary on the higher education reform carried out in Poland in 2019. Its polemical thrust is directed at the elitist approach to university education stipulated by the reform. The author argues that this goal will not be achieved, and the real result of the reform will be: the creation of an education system that makes it difficult for the working class to access higher education institutions, the marketisation of universities and the deepening isolation of the university from social life.

We live in a unique society where despite breathing the same air and maybe stepping on the same ground, human beings have, over time, grouped themselves in social classes basing on quite a number of factors. In contemporary society, social discrimination is just part of the many forms of society discrimination that sadly we have to cope with ranging all the way from gender discrimination to racial discrimination and social class prejudice. Social class discrimination can be attributed to the differences in wealth, title and location that one comes from and it tends to group people into three broad classes; high class, middle class and low class. A general description of social class description is that it is a prejudice basing on social class in terms of attitudes, systems of policies in the society and other practices that are meant to benefit the high class at the expense of the low class. The three classes are always in conflict even though the most common of them all is the discrimination jeered towards the low class from the high class; all depending on wealth. This form of discrimination exist everywhere in schools, churches, on the streets, at theatres, playgrounds, shopping malls and other places where more than one person can meet and interact with another.

- by Brian Ambani
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- Social Classes

A brief look into La Española's mid sixteenth-century Italian sugar entrepreneur Juan Soderin's properties (including his household slaves), financial situation, business activities, attitudes towards relatives, religious beliefs and social circle or network, as reflected on his last will and an inventory of his assets shortly before his passing away in 1556. Based on previously unpublished documents from Archivo General de Indias of Seville. Full transcription by the author of both documents included as appendix.

Autor polemizuje z coraz popularniejszą tezą, zrównującą status chłopa epoki pańszczyźnianej z kondycją niewolnika. W XVI wieku Polska była najważniejszym eksporterem zbóż w Europie. Konsekwencją tego faktu stała się refeudalizacja,... more

- by Czas Kultury and +1
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- History, Sociology, Social Sciences, Slavery

Introdução: intensificação das desigualdades. Classes sociais e multidimensionalidade das desigualdades. Análise das classes sociais: modelo teórico e operatório. Classes sociais e desigualdades de género na Europa. Classes sociais e... more

- by Nigel Morgan
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- Marketing, Ethics, Human Rights, Social Inequalities

The article suggests that a dance field emerged i the early 20th century with 3 subfields, folk dance, theatre dance and ball room dance. These fields are compared to the total dance activity in the country, and a pioneer representing each of the fields is portrayed in term of social class and ideological standing. They are Hulda Garborg, Gyda Christensen and Hjalmar Svaae. Examples from other Nordic countries are also brought in. Egil Bakka followed up this pilot study with another article; "Class dimensions of dance spaces: situating central agents across countries and categories"
Nordic Dance Spaces. Practicing and Imagining a Region
Edited by Karen Vedel and Petri Hoppu Routledge 2016T

- by Egil Bakka and +1
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- Dance Studies, Anthropology Of Dance, Ethnochoreology, Dance History

This paper aims to advance debates in youth studies about the contemporary relevance of social structures of class, race and gender to the formation of youth subcultures. I demonstrate how drawing on a cultural class analysis and education literature on learner identities and performativity can be productive in theorising the continued significance of class, and indeed also race and gender in young people's lives. In examining school-based friendships and (sub)cultural forms through empirical research in urban schools, I argue that not only are young people's subcultural groups structured by class, race and gender but also they are integral to the production of these identities. By examining the discursive productions of two school-based subcultures as examples: the ‘Smokers’ and the ‘Football’ crowd, I further argue that these identity positions embody resources or capitals which have differing value in the context of the urban school and thus demonstrate how race, class and gender privilege are maintained and reproduced through youth subculture.

- by Sumi Hollingworth
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- Cultural Studies, Youth Studies, Subcultures, Race and Ethnicity

This research proposes to show how the class distinction in Victorian Age takes place in Elizabeth Gaskell's novel " Mary Barton ". First of all, it's aimed to analyze how was the social and economic events emerged through the industrialization in England. It's observed that the novel reflects both upper class and working-class people's social life. Much of the working-class population were living in poverty and they tried to announce their voice with the Chartist Movement. Then, to indicate the effects of the values and norms, ethics, class and gender relations which observed

- by Büşra Aslan
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- English Literature, Victorian Women Writers, Victorian novel, Social Classes

W jaki sposób przedstawiciele trzech klas społecznych postrzegają zróżnicowania społeczne? Czy je dostrzegają? Jak je ugruntowują? Jakie miejsce w ich ramach przypisują sobie i swojemu sposobowi życia?
Artykuł jest próbą rekonstrukcji etosów trzech klas: wyższej, średniej i ludowej. Do analizy wykorzystano materiał z badań nad strukturą klasową polskiego społeczeństwa, prowadzonych przez zespół z Instytutu Socjologii UW pod kierownictwem Macieja Gduli i Przemysława Sadury.

- by Krzysztof Świrek
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- Pierre Bourdieu, Social Classes, Klasy Społeczne, Badania Jakościowe

O actual contexto de globalização coloca novas questões à análise das relações de classe. Clarificando o posicionamento teórico e as possibilidades operatórias da actual sociologia das classes sociais e da estratificação, o presente artigo procura dar contributos para essa análise, procedendo a um exame comparativo, no âmbito da União Europeia, de um conjunto seleccionado de indicadores de recomposição social. Um dos principais eixos da análise prende-se com o confronto entre parâmetros nacionais e globais de estruturação das relações de classe.

- by António Firmino Costa and +3
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- Social Classes
- by Vincent C Bates
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- Sociology, Rural Sociology, Music Education, Poverty

Non sans raison, le romancier britannique George Orwell, fin observateur de la société de son temps, décrivit un jour la Grande-Bretagne comme « le pays le plus marqué par les divisions de classe sur cette terre ». Si le propos semble aujourd'hui excessif pour rendre compte de la réalité sociale du pays, il semble toutefois que la conscience de classe demeure un trait marquant de la mentalité britannique, plus particulièrement en Angleterre. Si l'on en juge par le nombre d'essais, de romans, d'articles de presse, de sondages ou d'études universitaires régulièrement publiés au Royaume-Uni et ayant trait de près ou de loin à la notion de classe, force est de constater que les Britanniques sont, sinon obsédés par l'idée de classe, en tout cas plus préoccupés par cette question que la plupart des nations occidentales...

- by Büşra Efendioğlu
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- American Literature, American Culture, Social Classes, F. Scott Fitzgerald

This study investigates how age, gender, social class and dialect influence how frequently speakers of British English use intensifiers (e.g. 'very') in private conversations and whether this has changed over the last two decades. With data drawn from over 600 speakers and 4 M. words included in the British National Corpus 1994 and 2014, it is the most comprehensive study of intensifier usage to date, taking into account 111 intensifier variants. Results show that, in most age groups and social classes, men use intensifiers less frequently than women, and gender differences have diminished to a very limited extent, notably for the middle class. Moreover, intensification rate has increased across the board over time. This could be due to a shift towards a stereotypically more feminine communicative style as the perception of gender roles has changed, a process by which the middle class might have been particularly affected.

- by Robert Fuchs
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- Gender Studies, Sex and Gender, Feminist Theory, Languages and Linguistics
- by Caio Henrique
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- Sociology, Social Classes, Sociología, Capitalismo
- by Christopher Koy
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- American Literature, Slavery, African American Literature, Victorian Literature

The task of studying the impact of social class on physical and mental health involves, among other things, the use of a conceptual toolbox that defines what social class is, establishes how to measure it, and sets criteria that help distinguish it from closely related concepts. One field that has recently witnessed a wealth of theoretical and conceptual research on social class is psychology, but geographers' and sociologists' attitude of diffidence toward this " positivistic " discipline has prevented them from taking advantage of this body of scholarship. This paper aims to highlight some of the most important developments in the psychological study of social class and social mobility that speak to the long-standing concerns of health geographers and sociologists with how social position, perceptions, social comparisons, and class-based identities impact health and well-being.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.11.037

- by Dragos Simandan
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- Critical Theory, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Medical Sociology
- by Isabela Nogueira de Morais
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- China, Social Classes

Hogyan képzeljük el a magyar társadalom osztályszerkezetét? Terhes babapiskótaként? Piramisként vagy körteként? Az összetett és elvont jelenségek megértését megkönnyíti, ha már ismert dolgokhoz hasonlítjuk. A metaforák egy határig mozgósítják a képzelőerőt. E könyv a félperifériás magyar társadalom osztályszerkezetét egy olyan csepphez hasonlítja, amely az elmúlt négy évtizedben mindinkább széthúzódott. Egyaránt nőtt a távolság a felül és az alul levők, az uralkodó és az alávetett helyzetűek, a tőkések és a munkások között. Vajon mi okozza az egyenlőtlenségek növekedését, az élethelyzetek eltávolodását, a társadalmi felemelkedés és lecsúszás esélyének alacsony szintjét? A kötet válaszai szerint egyfelől a globális kapitalizmus, a tőkés világrendszer dinamikája, másfelől a magyar államot elfoglaló osztályok és osztályfrakciók politikája. A magyar társadalom osztályszerkezete csepp a kapitalista világrendszer tengerében. Egyetlen apró alkotóelemként sűrítve foglalja magába az egész valamennyi feszítő ellentmondását. A könyv célja, hogy közelebb vigyen a változáshoz. A félperifériás magyar társadalom osztályszerkezetének feltérképezésével átalakításának ügyét kívánja előremozdítani. Azért akarja működését feltárni, hogy egyesült erővel, közösen változtathassuk meg.

- by Márk Áron Éber
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- World Systems Analysis, Social Class, Social Classes, Social Structure

John White’s new interdisciplinary study of private schools in Britain asks if there are good reasons for their continued existence. Drawing on philosophical, historical and recent policy data, it questions well-known objections to them. Its central concern is the danger they pose to a democratic society: their traditional dominion over leadership positions in sphere after sphere still continues. In recent years they have benefited from a deliberate blurring of the divide between the concepts of private and public education – most notably via the academies programme in England. Their growing strength has to be seen against the wider background of a single hierarchical system. Private schools and top state schools are at the apex of a new pyramid created by examination-focused curricula, league tables and parent choice.The book ends with proposals for abolishing private schools or curbing their power.

- by John White
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- Applied Philosophy, Education, Teacher Education, History of Education
- by stroma cole
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- Marketing, Ethics, Human Rights, Social Inequalities

Eigene Visualisierung der Figurations-, Interdependenz- oder Prozeßtheorie des deutsch-niederländischen Soziologen Norbert Elias (1897-1990) als theoretisches Modell für künftige historiographische Forschungen zum Thema "Historische... more

Qui organise aujourd'hui des funérailles catholiques à Abomey, dans le sud du Bénin? Comment, pourquoi, et dans quelles conditions? Voici quelques-unes des questions auxquelles ce texte s'efforce de répondre, en replaçant ce cas dans la problématique plus générale de l'articulation entre identités religieuses et divisions sociales dans l'Afrique contemporaine.

- by Joël Noret
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- Religion, Christianity, Comparative Religion, Sociology of Religion
- by Gerald McFarland
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- History, Social Classes, History of the American West, Historical Studies

Esej dotyczy powieści Radka Raka ("Baśń o wężowym sercu...") umieszczonej na szerokim tle. Przedstawia postać Jakuba Szeli (przywódca antyszlacheckiego powstania chłopskiego z roku 1846) i jego kulturowe reprezentacje - od pamiętników ziemiaństwa z wieku XIX, poprzez "Wesele" Wyspiańskiego, dramat "Turoń" Żeromskiego i poemat "Słowo o Jakubie Szeli" Brunona Jasieńskiego, aż po sztukę teatralną "W imię Jakuba S." Pawła Demirskiego i Moniki Strzępki.

Drawing on social histories of rumour, this article challenges notions of white and Afrikaner homogeneity which persist in the scholarship on late and post-apartheid South Africa. In so doing, it demonstrates the revisionist potential of rumour as a historical source, while reinserting class in a scholarship which privileges race as salient historical feature. The article focuses on Arrie Paulus, apartheid South Africa’s most prominent white trade unionist, infamous as the personification of working-class racism. Yet this defender of race-based privilege and staunch Afrikaner nationalist was haunted by a rumour: Paulus, it was
whispered, was not actually white. The rumour circulated in reform-era South Africa and persists in the post-apartheid present. By examining the rumour surrounding Paulus’s racial and ethnic origins in terms of the functions it fulfilled within the particular contexts in which it appeared, this article exposes longstanding tensions around the politics of class characterizing Afrikaner society since the 1970s.

- by Danelle van Zyl-Hermann
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- Critical Race Studies, Working Classes, Class, Race and Ethnicity

The family in Qatar plays a significant role in shaping its members’ lives, passing down the dominant culture with its history, traditions, values, customs, and social order to subsequent generations. Through the institution of marriage, individuals have been choosing their partners based on criteria passed down to them by their families. They have also been preserving and reproducing the culture, traditions, values, and customs invested in them by their own families by reinvesting them into their own children. By relying on a mixed method approach, the author investigates the role of the family and marriage institutions in the sustenance and stimulation of the reproduction of social stratification in Qatari society. This article is the first of its kind to address the phenomenon of reproduction of social stratification in an Arab state of the Persian Gulf.

- by Islam Hassan
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- Family studies, Gulf Studies, Family Law, The Persian Gulf

Ao se apropriarem de suas narrativas, Angela Davis e Preta Ferreira desafiam as hierarquias em torno do poder de escrever a história. Nas últimas páginas de seu livro publicado pela editora Boitempo, Preta Ferreira narra seu encontro com Angela Davis, cuja obra passou a ser lançada no Brasil em 2016, pela Boitempo. Em 2019, Angela — que teve sua autobiografia publicada no mesmo ano por aqui — viajou pelo país proferindo palestras e se encontrando com ativistas brasileiras, como Preta Ferreira. O plano era que Angela a visitasse na prisão, “mas, para minha sorte, não deu tempo. No fundo, eu nem queria que ela fosse ao presídio, seria egoísmo fazer com que ela revisitasse essa dor”. Entre a libertação de Preta e o encontro com Angela, passaram-se dez dias. Apesar de ter deixado o cárcere, Preta não estava livre dele. Ela carregava a prisão no corpo e na forma de traumas, reatualizados pelas viaturas estacionadas em frente à sua casa. O regime de prisão domiciliar a impedia de estar na rua à noite e nos fins de semana, os períodos em que a professora norte-americana ministrava suas palestras, e foi por isso que ela teve que recusar inúmeros convites para encontrá-la. Em um domingo, Angela cancelou seus compromissos e foi visitá-la. No diário de Preta, esse foi o “dia em que a Terra parou”. Contudo, sua escrita nos alerta que o encontro não foi nada romântico, pois foi carregado de dor e sofrimento, mas também cheio de potência. Preta Ferreira identifica-se com Angela Davis não só pela história de enfrentamento do sistema de Justiça criminal (“eu vi a mesma história contada duas vezes”), pela proximidade de suas trajetórias (“eu me vi no futuro”), mas também pelo fato de terem uma ancestralidade comum: “parecia que eu me via naquela mulher” — assim, ela “poderia ser Angela Ferreira ou Preta Davis”.

- by Ana Gabriela M . Braga and +1
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- Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Access to Justice, Narratives

Engels' Origin "Withering is progression under special circumstances" In Engels' work origin of the Family, Private Property and State, he points out on two distinct epochs in the evolution of mankind, the two are Savagery, Barbarism and Civilization, and for now we will focus on the first two as it is important to understand these epochs. The two epochs are separated into three distinct stages which are the lower stage, middle stage, and upper stage. Each stage refers to different period in the development of mankind and society along with it the discovery of many things including the discovery of fire, agriculture, and iron.

- by Charles Angelo J . Loma
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- Social Classes, Friedrich Engels, Private Property, Ancient civilizations
- by Christian Garland
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- Critical Theory, Business, Industrial And Labor Relations, Information Systems

In this introductory essay to our special issue on elites, we outline some of the major challenges to research in this area and propose a series of theoretical and methodological pathways to address them. Theoretically we make four recommendations: (a) greater attentiveness to and specificity about the relationship between elites and power; (b) a clearer articulation of the relationships between elites and the varieties of capitalism; (c) far more attention to diversity within elites and the use of elites to understand forms of domination like white supremacy and masculine domination and (d) expanding beyond the orthodox form of Bourdieusian theoretical frameworks. Methodologically we outline how research using survey instruments, social network analysis (SNA) (and multiple correspondence analysis), interviews, ethnographic observation, experiments, archival research, administrative data and content analysis can each be deployed, built upon or redirected to help bring elites into greater focus.

- by Bruno Cousin
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- Sociology, Economic Sociology, Social Theory, Anthropology
- by Elizabeth Jelin
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- Social Movements, Social Classes, Latin America, Movimientos sociales

Inequality refers to the phenomenon of unequal and/or unjust distribution of resources and opportunities among members of a given society. The term inequality may mean different things to different people and in different contexts. Moreover, inequality encompasses distinct yet overlapping economic, social, and spatial dimensions. Debates about inequality are further complicated by the disjuncture between the moral ethics of equity and social justice, on the one hand, and the normative idea of “deservingness,” on the other hand. In recent years, there has been increasing awareness of inequalities that are observable within social groups, in addition to those across social groups. This awareness has led to an increasing realization that inequality is systemic and entrenched in various socio-economic and political structures. Geographers' contributions toward the topic of inequality in this regard include highlighting the persistence of unequal and differentiated rights, interrogating global and extreme inequality, and analyzing the manifestations and causes of urban inequalities.

- by Sin Yee Koh
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- Human Geography, Segregation, Social Justice, Social Stratification

A obra dialogam com os estudos culturais, retratando o mundo colonial do século XX, a partir de um olhar literário busca elaborar reflexões sobre as possibilidades de descolonização dos povos. O autor, Frantz Fanon, acreditava que a revolução não acontece através da cultura, mas sim a partir das mudanças das condições de vida dos indivíduos (o que remete a corrente do materialismo histórico), ou seja, para lutar contra a opressão deve-se elaborar também uma mudança na estrutura social, que ocasione transformações na politica e na economia. A luta contra a opressão do negro na sociedade colonial é retratada na sua obra. O modo como à sociedade europeia – branca – colonizadora tratava o negro – africano – colonizado é o plano de fundo principal da obra Pele negra, máscaras brancas.

- by Maynara Costa de Oliveira Silva
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- Sociology, Social Classes, Colonialismo, Antropología Social

The original essay was published 50 years ago in a radical student journal Cheche at the University of East Africa, the Dar es Salaam Campus. This booklet contains the original essay together with comments by late Walter Rodney, late Kassim Guruli and late Justinian Rweyemamu and also by Thamas Szentes and John Saul. The book is out of print. It is being uploaded here because of public demand.

- by Issa Shivji
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- Social Classes

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