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  • Middle Class Blacks
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    The American people have a serious identity crisis. Its rare while in the country to hear someone say that they are American. People say that they are Irish, Scottish, German, Italian, African, English, West Indian, etc. Often people are a combination of these. For black Americans it becomes even more complicated. Many want to identify as African but others would never dream of such a thing because its so foreign to them. I was speaking to a man at a party I had at my apartment. He was telling m...
  • Urban Middle Class Within The Indian Context
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    AN 214: Anthropology of India: Discuss the way urban middle-class identities have been debated in relation to changing kinship and consumption patterns with reference to the ethnographies you read. "Materialism is the new karma". (Pavan K Varma, 2005) Whilst numerical estimates of the Indian middle classes vary drastically, media images contribute to their portrayal as affluent consumers- participants in the IT boom in urban centres such as Hyderabad and those revelling in India's status as a ca...
  • Upper Middle And Lower Middle Classes
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    Forrest Gump coined the phrase "Life is like a box of chocolates" from the movie Forrest Gump, released in 1994. In 2001, I am putting a spin on it in terms I understand: The M&M class structure. Growing up, red candies were the most coveted of all the candy-covered chocolate treats. Once the Mars Chocolate Company introduced the blue M&M in '96, in became instantly popular. Even though they were not around as long as the others, they still took over the throne as the ruling upper class in the M...
  • McClain's The Middle Class Black
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    Middle Class Blacks' Burden Today in America there are many who assume that racism does not exist as it did in the forties, fifties, and sixties. Racism today is not as dangerous as it once was, but that does not mean that it does not hurt people just as much. There are many who think we have solved our racial problems and that African Americans live freely. However, there are many African Americans who work extremely hard to benefit society and all some people still see is their skin color. Mal...
  • Upper Class
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    The Second Industrial Revolution brought unity and prosperity to the once uneconomical Europe. Products such as railroads, coal, iron, and textiles, as well as the discovery of electricity, and use of chemicals, petroleum, and steel, are all contributes to what is referred to as the Second Industrial Revolution. These products brought improvement and advancement to all social classes. The Middle Class was profited greatly due to the Revolution. Some were even starting to merge with upper class d...
  • Advantage Of The Lower Class
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    Andrew Battaini 2/16/00 Industrial France and England The impact Industrial Revolution was immense on the countries of France and England, which caused large changes in the social classes. Another class of peoples emerged in England and France; they were the middle classes. The middle class was made up of intelligent people who made their money through their smarts and not how they were born. This was clearly proven in France when it's middle class emerged and being influenced by the philosophie...
  • New Businesses Middle Classes
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    Why were family values so important to the British middle class Family values were so important to the middle class because as a class they wanted to be better than the other classes in society. It was the only thing that united them. In the late eighteenth century and the early nineteenth century it was a time of industrialisation. The middle class was establishing itself as a class of respectability, and making a living in the new industrial society. It developed into a class of prosperity tha...
  • Middle Class People
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    The society in A Brave New World is very similar to the society of today. Though the society is scientifically created, it still shows much resemblance to that of our naturally formed society today. The system of classes is nearly identical to the class system of the present. The main difference is the scientific engineering of the people in each class. Obviously, in our society people are not altered scientifically in order to fit into a social class. In any culture, whether it is futuristic or...
  • People Of The Lower And Middle Classes
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    It is believed that there is a tension between social classes in America. Typically, people of lower classes choose to imitate those of higher social status. As a result, advertisers have a tendency to take advantage of this tension in order to profit from people of the lower and middle classes. In "The American Upper Class", G. William Domhoff says that "exhibiting high social status... is a way of exercising power" (Domhoff p. 34)", which is something important to all social classes. According...
  • Upper And Middle Classes
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    CharlesDickens' novel, Hard Times, is a story of two struggles-the struggle of fact versus imagination and the struggle between two classes. It takes place in Coketown, and industrial-age English city. The novel is divided into two sections. One deals with the struggle of upper class members of society and their struggle to learn the value of imagination. The other involves a working class man who is trapped by those in that upper class who trap him in a dreary existence. Thomas Gradgrind, the f...
  • Upper And Middle Classes
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    Dickens' provides the reader with scathing insight into the social standard of this time / era. How successful is Dickens in portraying the injustices of social class " In England the social fences, if left alone, grow like wild hedges". -D.W. Brogan The class system in England began with the introduction of feudalism which followed the Norman Conquest of 1066 and has been the social guideline for hundreds of years. The class system consists of an upper, middle and lower class. These classes and...
  • Middle Class Of Victorian England
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    Social Class Divisions and the Effects on Women of Victorian England Two hundred years ago, during the reign of Queen Victoria in England, the social barriers of the Victorian class system firmly defined the roles of women. The families of Victorian England were divided into four distinct classes: the Nobility or Gentry Class, the Middle Class, the Upper Working Class, and lastly, the Lower Working class. The women of these classes each had their own traditional responsibilities. The specifics o...
  • Black Middle Class
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    By: Anonymous Black Bourgeoisie Reading Response In the first section of Frazier's Black Bourgeoisie, "The World of Reality", Frazier introduces his discussion of the interplay of class and race. He outlines the historical roots of the social place of most African-Americans in the U.S.A. and that of the black middle class. Frazier asserts the inconsequential place of middle class African-Americans and their resulting inferiority complex. He depicts the black middle class as living in a "no man's...
  • Status And Social Classes In Madam Bovary
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    Striving for higher social status has been the downfall of many people just as it was the destruction of Emma Bovary. In Nineteenth Century France, several class existed: peasant or working class, middle class, upper-middle class, bourgeois, and aristocrats. In the story, "Madame Bovary", we see a number of individuals striving to move themselves up to the bourgeois, a status that is higher than the working class but not as high as nobility. The bourgeois are characterized by being educated and ...
  • Growth Of A Black Middle Class Church
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    There is something tragically askew in the religious state of black Americans; namely, the near-failure of qualitative development in integrated and / or separate black middle-class churches and denominations. That same near-failure is of course evident in every mainstream Protestant denomination, black or white, whether the criteria be lack of growth or loss of adult membership, youth participation, trained clergy, theologically alert laity, or commitment to black ecumenism. But nowhere is this...
  • Economic From Cultural Components Of A Class
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    'Where some possess much, and the others nothing, there may arise an extreme- either out of the most rampant democracy, or out of an oligarchy. ' ; This was once said by Aristotle who was probably the first to recognize the importance of a middle class. A powerful debate whether the middle class is essentially defined by cultural or economic factors still remains an issue. A rich tradition is devoted to disentangling economic from cultural components of a class. According to Karl Marx, the middl...
  • Service Class Position
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    The service class as defined by the Oxford Dictionary of Sociology (Gordon Marshall, 1998) is; A term first used by the Austro-Marxist Karl Renner to describe employees in Government (Civil Servants), private economic service (Business administrators, managers, technical experts), and social services (distributors of welfare. Subsequently adopted by the by the British sociologist John H Goldthorpe, to describe those whose employment relationship is based on a code of service rather than a labour...
  • Today's Economic Decline Of The Middle Class
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    Throughout the past century, the middle class has emerged as a vital part of the North American psyche. Even today, many people classify themselves as a part of the middle class, regardless of their actual income level. However, this perception is incorrect. In the past 20 years, the middle class has been declining, primarily as a result of past political interventions and job polarization throughout North America. The subject of middle class is very controversial, and depending on how it is def...
  • Middle Ages And The Early Modern Period
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    From 1000 to 1750, European women were treated as a second class and were always unequal to men. Women had responsibilities but no rights. The social standing of a woman also influenced the way she was treated. Women were involved in the community socially, politically, and economically to some extent, by 1750. Since the year 1000, women have become more important and recognized, but still both genders are not treated as complete equals even to this day. In medieval times, from the fall of the R...
  • 0 The Middle Class
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    APPLICATION OF THE THEORY TO THE ISSUE: ALBERT K. COHEN'S THEORY OF GANGS AND THE DELINQUENT SUBCULTURE Albert K. Cohen was the first person that attempted to find out the process of beginning of a delinquent subculture. His perspective has been referred to an integrating theory of several sociological theories such as the Chicago School!'s sociologist!'s work, Merton!'s strain theory, cultural conflict theory and Sutherland!'s differential association theory. In Cohen's book! ^0 Delinquent Boys...

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