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Journal articles on the topic "Upper class men"
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Mishra, Suman. "Looking westwards: Men in transnational men’s magazine advertising in India." Global Media and Communication 13, no. 3 (October 5, 2017): 249–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1742766517734254.
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This study examines advertising content of four top-selling Indian editions of transnational men’s lifestyle magazines ( Men’s Health India, GQ India, FHM India and Maxim India) to understand how it constructs masculinity for upper-class urban Indian men. Through content analysis of advertisements, the study finds greater presence of international brands and Caucasian models than domestic Indian brands and Indian models. Male models often appear alone and in decorative roles as opposed to professional roles. The study discusses the emergence of class-based glocal masculinity that helps assimilate upper-class Indian men into the global consumer base through shared ideals, goals and values.
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Sajarwa, Sajarwa. "Swear Words in French : Analysis of Social Class and Gender." Humanus 20, no. 2 (November 29, 2021): 139. http://dx.doi.org/10.24036/humanus.v20i2.111969.
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Swear words utterances in French are used as a mean to express emotion that have various functions, both personal or social. The swear words represent social group and gender. This research uses descriptive-interpretative method which data taken from two French novels with different social class background. The research results show that in upper social group, the swear words deliver indirectly, meanwhile in lower social group, the swear words express directly to the party that being cursed. Both social groups use professions as verbal abuse, however the upper social group also uses ethnicity as swear words. Through the swear words, the upper class group preserve their social status from generation to generation. From the gender perspective, men and women both use swear words refer to genitals. Men have more variation of swear words usage.
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Abdelazim, Ahmed. "‘Men Don't Cry Over Women’." Anthropology of the Middle East 16, no. 2 (December 1, 2021): 57–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ame.2021.160203.
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Abstract By examining mahragānāt, a genre of music common among the low-income working class in Cairo, and upper-class pop music, this article studies the expression of love and grief across socio-economic classes in Egypt. It challenges the mainstream argument that men, especially those belonging to lower socio-economic classes, are expected to perform ‘like men’ and suppress their emotions and affection. These mahragānāt exhibit extreme affection and grief as men threat of inflicting self-harm or committing suicide if they lose their female lovers. This genre's popularity on social media resonates with increasing suicide rates among lower socio-economic classes due to failed love affairs. By focusing on expressions of love in Egyptian music, this article suggests a dialectic relation between love, class and the understanding of masculinity.
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Wells, Elizabeth A. "Expresso Bongo and Make Me an Offer: The ‘Angry Young Musical’ in the 1950s." Studies in Musical Theatre 14, no. 2 (July 1, 2020): 163–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/smt_00030_1.
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Following on from John Osborne’s infamous play Look Back in Anger of 1956, London’s stage saw the emergence of the ‘Angry Young Man’, realistic portrayals of working-class men in a difficult age. Expresso Bongo and Lily White Boys, works of the mid-to-late 1950s, demonstrate that the angry young man was also present in London’s musicals, previously an upper- and middle-class genre. Featuring the Soho district, gangsters, prostitutes and rock music, this unique era of musical theatre changed expectations of what musical theatre could and would offer to a jaded urban audience. These astonishing musical theatre works offer potent commentary on British society, British identity and particularly disenfranchised young British men, and offer insights into American and British relations, gender roles and expectations, and the complicated role of working-class men in the new Elizabethan era.
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Norbakk, Mari. "Men of Light Blood." Men and Masculinities 21, no. 3 (March 27, 2018): 328–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1097184x17748172.
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This article explores how revolution stories become a claim to manhood in Egypt, which may be used as leverage when men struggle to live up to the ideal of male provider. The revolution is stylized in the stories that youth have about their participation in the 2011 Thawrat Shabaab (youth revolution). In analyzing the narration and performance of the revolution stories, Herzfeld’s concept of performative excellence becomes relevant. Based on fieldwork undertaken in Cairo, Egypt, in 2013, the author argues that revolution stories and being good at telling jokes impart masculine capital. Inspired by Inhorn’s call for ethnographies on Arab men, this article engages with how Egyptian manhood is produced in interaction with peer groups and underlines the importance of male friendship and humor. Focusing on men from the upper-middle class of Cairo highlights how deeply classed (male) gender is in contemporary Egypt.
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Luthar, Suniya S., Phillip J. Small, and Lucia Ciciolla. "Adolescents from upper middle class communities: Substance misuse and addiction across early adulthood." Development and Psychopathology 30, no. 1 (May 31, 2017): 315–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954579417000645.
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AbstractIn this prospective study of upper middle class youth, we document frequency of alcohol and drug use, as well as diagnoses of abuse and dependence, during early adulthood. Two cohorts were assessed as high school seniors and then annually across 4 college years (New England Study of Suburban Youth younger cohort [NESSY-Y]), and across ages 23–27 (NESSY older cohort [NESSY-O]; ns = 152 and 183 at final assessments, respectively). Across gender and annual assessments, results showed substantial elevations, relative to norms, for frequency of drunkenness and using marijuana, stimulants, and cocaine. Of more concern were psychiatric diagnoses of alcohol/drug dependence: among women and men, respectively, lifetime rates ranged between 19%–24% and 23%–40% among NESSY-Os at age 26; and 11%–16% and 19%–27% among NESSY-Ys at 22. Relative to norms, these rates among NESSY-O women and men were three and two times as high, respectively, and among NESSY-Y, close to one among women but twice as high among men. Findings also showed the protective power of parents’ containment (anticipated stringency of repercussions for substance use) at age 18; this was inversely associated with frequency of drunkenness and marijuana and stimulant use in adulthood. Results emphasize the need to take seriously the elevated rates of substance documented among adolescents in affluent American school communities.
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Pfaffendorf, Jessica. "Sensitive Cowboys." Gender & Society 31, no. 2 (March 16, 2017): 197–222. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0891243217694823.
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In the past few decades, a multi-billion-dollar “therapeutic boarding school” industry has emerged for America’s troubled upper-class youth. This article examines the therapeutic models prominent in these programs and the ways they conflict with dominant notions of masculinity. Using in-depth interviews and ethnographic fieldwork inside a Western therapeutic boarding school, I show how privileged young men navigate this masculinity dilemma by constructing hybrid masculinities that incorporate qualities associated with femininities and subordinate masculinities. However, these qualities are incorporated strategically and in ways that reproduce and obscure privileges associated with students’ positions as young, upper-class, white men. Using hybrid masculine styles that include humility, commitment to service, and open emotional expression, students re-assert dominant positions as leaders and as “better” men in contrast to various others.
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SHERIF, BAHIRA. "The Prayer of a Married Man Is Equal to Seventy Prayers of a Single Man." Journal of Family Issues 20, no. 5 (September 1999): 617–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/019251399020005003.
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This study examines the central role of marriage among upper-middle-class Muslim Egyptians in Cairo, Egypt. It is based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out over a total of 20 months by the author between 1988 and 1996. Using religious and legal sources as well as semistructured interviews and participant observation among two generations of 20 households, this study indicates that marriage continues to occupy a significant place in the life course of both upper-middle-class Muslim men and women. This article indicates that societal norms, as well as family structure and expectations, influence the prevalence of marriage as a necessary rite of passage for achieving adulthood among this class of Egyptians. Furthermore, this article describes the actual customs, beliefs, and practices associated with Muslim Egyptian marriages to counteract the Western bias that often obscures studies of this area of the world.
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Martínez Vergne, Teresita. "Bourgeois women in the early twentieth-century Dominican national discourse." New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 75, no. 1-2 (January 1, 2001): 65–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/13822373-90002558.
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Argues that in the early 20th c. a male elite in the Dominican Republic, in formulating a national project toward modernization and economic progress, projected on upper- and middle-class women prescribed roles as subordinate to men. She argues that working-class women were totally seen as unimportant to nation building. She describes how in different writings of the time bourgeois women were depicted as incapable to contribute to the desired progress independently, i.e. other than serving men.
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Kostrzewa, Maciej, Radosław Laskowski, Michal Wilk, Wiesław Błach, Angelina Ignatjeva, and Magdalena Nitychoruk. "Significant Predictors of Sports Performance in Elite Men Judo Athletes Based on Multidimensional Regression Models." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 21 (November 6, 2020): 8192. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17218192.
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Background: This research aimed to identify the most significant predictors of sports level using regression modeling. Methods: This study examined 16 judokas (aged 23 (±2.5)) from four weight categories, with four athletes in each category (66 kg, 73 kg, 81 kg and 90 kg). Each athlete was a member of the Polish National Team, an international master class (IM) or national master class (M). The tests were carried out twice (every two weeks) during the pre-competitive season in the morning, after a 10-min warm-up. The tests were performed according to the following protocol: Explosive Strength Lower Limbs (ExSLL) [W], Strength Endurance Lower Limbs (SELL) [%], Explosive Strength Upper Limbs (ExSUL) [W], Strength Endurance Upper Limbs (SEUL) [%]. The relationships between the dependent variable (ranking score) and the other analyzed variables (predictors) were estimated using the one-factor ridge regression analysis. Results: There were significant intergroup and intragroup differences in the results of explosive strength and strength endurance of the lower and upper limbs. The best predictors were identified using regression modeling: ExSLL, SELL, and SEUL. Conclusions: Increasing the value of these predictors by a unit should significantly affect the scores in the ranking table. Correlation analysis showed that all variables that are strongly correlated with the Polish Judo Association (PJA) ranking table scores may have an effect on the sports performance.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Upper class men"
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Nyström, Anne-Sofie. "Att synas och lära utan att synas lära : En studie om underprestation och privilegierade unga mäns identitetsförhandlingar i gymnasieskolan." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-164049.
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In the last decade stratification within educational results has, in Sweden as in other countries, been framed as a matter of boys’ and young men’s under-achievement. The question of whether this is a problem, and if so, for whom and how to change the structure, has been discussed in research and educational policy. The aim of the thesis is to contribute to these fields and to enhance knowledge of young people’s gendered and classed identity processes, by analyzing how achievement and engagement were negotiated and given meaning in relation to young men. Previous research has primarily explored identity processes among “risk categories” or subordinated students. The objective here was to analyze how masculinity was accomplished via peer-group interactions within a rarely problematized category, through examining how upper middle-class young men identify themselves and are ascribed identities by others. The study’s design was inspired by ethnographic methodology and combined participant observation, semi-structured individual and group interviews and a background questionnaire. Identities, social categorizations (especially gender and class) and dominance-relations were thus analyzed from an actor-oriented perspective. The research participants were young men and women, age 15-16, in two school classes. The field work was conducted at, respectively, a Natural Science and a Vehicle Programme; educational settings with connotations to masculinity but significantly different in terms of class. The study enrolled a total of fifty-six students, but focus is upon the fifteen young men among the natural science students. High achievement and under-achievement, high social and cognitive ability, and group loyalty are main themes in the study. Identity claims were analyzed in relation to the practices through which they were negotiated, e.g. self-hindrance. Similar to other research, the results emphasize the relationship between masculinity and “effortless achievement”. The concept “under-achievement” is developed as an analytical tool, by distinguishing between five dimensions.
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Gustavsson, Anna. "Faktorer som påverkar skoltrivsel hos gymnasieelever med neuropsykiatrisk funktionsnedsättning : en kvantitativ undersökning." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Pedagogik och didaktik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-177390.
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Adolescents with neurodevelopmental disabilities (NDD) tend to face great challenges in school which can affect their school wellbeing. This paper investigates the relations between school wellbeing and NDD. The purpose of the study was to examine if NDD, class climate, bullying, mental health, and mental health problems predicted school wellbeing and if there were differences between upper secondary students with and without self-rated NDD. The data of this study was retrieved from wave four of the longitudinal multidisciplinary research programme LoRDIA. Study participants were 288 adolescents in year two of upper secondary school, where 61 had self-related NDD and 227 did not. First a Mann-Whitney U-test tested the differences between the groups. Then a multiple regression analysis was conducted to test the predictors’ influence on school wellbeing. Lastly, a correlation test was conducted to see if any predictor was masked by the difference in group size. The results showed that NDD, class climate and bullying are predictors to school wellbeing, where NDD is the strongest predictor. There was also a difference between the groups concerning psychiatric problems where the group with NDD reported more problems, although this still not being a predictor to school wellbeing for this group. In conclusion, class climate and bullying are predictors to school wellbeing for both students with and without self-related NDD which suggests that schools should work for a positive social climate in school. Secondly, the group of students with NDD experience lower levels of school wellbeing but this could not be explained by any of the variables used in this study which calls for further investigations as to what the causes are.
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Nylund, Mattias. "Yrkesutbildning, klass & kunskap : en studie om sociala och politiska implikationer av innehållets organisering i yrkesorienterad utbildning med fokus på 2011 års gymnasiereform." Doctoral thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-29316.
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The overall purpose of this thesis is to critically contextualise the organization of content in Swedish upper-secondary vocational education by highlighting its social and political implications in relation to social class. Policy documents concerning the content of vocational education in Sweden from 1971 to 2011 serve as the main empirical source, with particular attention given to the reform of 2011 (Gy11). The thesis is comprised of four studies that each represents a different context that reveals social and political implications of the selection and organisation of content in Gy11. The content structure of Gy11 is thus analysed in relation to (a) the school’s role of fostering democratic citizens and the overarching societal function of education, (b) knowledge distribution among social classes, (c) a class context, including key historical and contemporary reforms, and (d) a modern historical context, focusing on how two previous structural reforms (1971 and 1994) organised power and control over educational content. The study results show that, in terms of its content structure and underlying principles, Gy11 represents a historical break with previous reforms in many respects. Fundamental organising principles of past reforms, such as students’ preparation for active citizenship, critical thinking and entry to higher education, have been given less importance while the content is more context-bound than in previous reforms. The Gy11 reform can thus be seen as a part of a broader policy trend that is detracting from earlier efforts to give all social classes equal access to an equivalent education and reduce social imbalances in education. This new way of shaping vocational education is, it is argued, likely to exacerbate class inequalities by both reducing social mobility and rendering knowledge distribution in society more asymmetric.
Books on the topic "Upper class men"
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Sui Tang Wu dai ming men wang shi. Beijing Shi: Zhongguo fa zhan chu ban she, 2008.
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Xinyu, Song, ed. Zhu zai Meiguo de hao men shi jia: Amerikanische Dynastien. Beijing: Zuo jia chu ban she, 2007.
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Donleavy, J. P. Wrong information is being given out at Princeton. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 1998.
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The "better angels" of capitalism: Rhetoric, narrative, and moral identity among men of the American upper class. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998.
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Edelman, Schnurnberger Lynn, ed. The men I didn't marry: A novel. New York: Ballantine Books, 2006.
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Hitler's valkyrie: The uncensored biography of Unity Mitford. Stroud: The History Press, 2015.
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Streib, Jessi. "Family Men." In Privilege Lost, 45–57. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190854041.003.0004.
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There are two types of family men: those raised in conservative communities and with resource strengths, and those raised with resource weaknesses who use the identity to make a virtue of necessity. The former distances themselves from school, college, and work but maintain enough resources to remain insecurely tied to the upper-middle class. The latter distances themselves from school, college, and work too. However, having started with fewer resources, they are unable to stay in the upper-middle class. Still, most are pleased with how their lives unfold: they are on route to marrying, becoming fathers, and providing—becoming the family men they’ve long wanted to be.
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Treggiari, Susan. "Servilia’s World." In Servilia and her Family, 1–22. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198829348.003.0001.
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First-century BC Rome controlled the Mediterranean. This empire was achieved by a militaristic citizen body and an honour-seeking ruling class. A succession of offices qualified a man to sit in the Senate, govern territories, command armies. A politician sought status conferred by the electorate. Magistrates formed the executive in Rome and in the provinces. The Senate acted as an advisory council and a pool of executives. The Roman People, the citizen body, was theoretically sovereign. Men voted in elections and on bills. Women were citizens, though they could not vote or stand for office or serve in the army. In private law, paternal power was important. Marriages between two citizens were intended for the production of children and founded on consent. An upper-class woman would hold her own property, could inherit, and divorce, and remarry. As a group, upper-class women were visible. Like men, they sought reputation.
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Streib, Jessi. "Stay-at-Home Mothers." In Privilege Lost, 30–44. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190854041.003.0003.
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Women who identify as stay-at-home mothers have only one option for class reproduction: through marriage. Most college-educated professional men now marry college-educated women. Women raised with college-educated mothers tend to receive enough academic and institutional knowledge from their mothers to graduate from college, marry a college-educated professional, and reproduce their class position. Women raised without college-educated mothers tend to inherit less academic and institutional knowledge and struggle with or reject college. Wanting to become stay-at-home mothers, they marry young—but to working-class men who further their slide out of the upper-middle class.
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Gosse, Van. "All the Black Men Vote for Mr. Otis." In The First Reconstruction, 159–204. University of North Carolina Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469660103.003.0006.
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This chapter covers all of New England from the Revolution on, as each of its original four states emancipated enslaved people, joined by Vermont in 1791 and Maine in 1820. It argues the four Upper New England states constituted a Yankee Republic committed to “sectional nationalism” and formally non-racial politics, led by Federalists like George Thatcher, congressman from Massachusetts’ “Maine District” in the 1790s. The nation’s first black political leader, Prince Hall, emerged in Boston in the 1780s, presaging an entire political class of defiant small businessmen, which reached its apogee in the 1820s, incorporating David Walker.
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Streib, Jessi. "Rebels." In Privilege Lost, 58–68. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190854041.003.0005.
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Men raised in liberal communities with low levels of academic and institutional knowledge see no institution that will reward them. In liberal communities, early marriage is frowned upon, and they did not receive the resources that would give them status in school, college, or work. They respond by becoming rebels—by repeatedly breaking institutional rules. This identity does not thwart their ability to stay in the upper-middle class at first, but it does after they graduate from college. Most become unemployed or underemployed—and begin to fall out of their original social class.
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Trefzer, Annette. "Transformative Performances." In New Essays on Eudora Welty, Class, and Race, edited by Harriet Pollack, 10–34. University Press of Mississippi, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496826145.003.0002.
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This chapter proposes that Eudora Welty’s “Negro State Fair Parade” photographs of Jackson during the 1930s capture not only the segregated practices and spaces of the American South but also the transgressive rituals and transformative performances of an increasingly socially mobile black culture. These photographs, many of them never before published, display the tensions between cultural integration and racial segregation, and they speak sharply and sometimes humorously to the immediate political and economic contexts. Welty captures new African-American middle class opportunities in photographs that display long-standing black professions such as the burial and beauty parlor business, but also aspirations for upper middle-class vocations. Together these photos depict boisterous African American men and dignified women whose access to parade floats and cars indicates a new kind of racial and social mobility in the segregated southern cityscape. Welty creates a visual record of the act of claiming public space as she zooms in on various strategies of African American self-fashioning.
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Nelson, Brian. "5. The man-eater." In Émile Zola: A Very Short Introduction, 59–70. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780198837565.003.0006.
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‘The man-eater’ turns to Nana, the ninth volume in the Rougon-Macquart cycle. Nana is the story of Gervaise Macquart’s daughter Anna/Nana, a street prostitute turned actress and courtesan. Her spectacular life, (she becomes the most celebrated courtesan in Paris, an almost mythical figure) is a metaphor for the hedonistic Second Empire; she humiliates and destroys all the men she encounters, and eventually dies of smallpox on the day of the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War. Zola plays to remarkable effect on male fear (including his own) of the ‘natural’ woman, and in particular on fear that prostitutes might transgress established social boundaries and infiltrate the bourgeoisie and upper class.
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Abou-Hodeib, Toufoul. "A Matter of Taste." In A Taste for Home. Stanford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.11126/stanford/9780804799799.003.0005.
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This chapter explores modern domesticity as articulated by men and women in the pages of the press and on lecture podiums, arguing for a project that carved out an economic and cultural place for an emerging middle class. As industrial production in Europe and the United States brought wider swathes of society in contact with new commodities, articles in the press on the use and disposition of objects at home attempted to differentiate the consumption habits of the middle class from the tasteless riches of the upper classes. While this functioned to culturally distinguish the nascent middle class in its social surroundings, the chapter argues that the debate went beyond, emphasizing the importance of distinguishing this middle class from “ifranji” (Western/European) modes of consumption and attempting to ground modern domesticity in “Oriental” or “Syrian” authenticity.
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Popa, Bogdan. "Performative Slurs: Political Rhetoric in Feminist Activism." In Shame. Edinburgh University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474419826.003.0004.
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In this chapter I discuss performative slurs as a tactic deployed by feminist activists in England in the 19th century. During debates about the Contagious Diseases Acts in England, feminists’ radical and humiliating rhetoric resignified exclusionary political conventions such as prostitution laws and prohibitions against voting. While Josephine Butler chastised upper-class men who were part of the political elite for being hypocrites and sadistic villains, Mill used shaming and humiliation strategically in his articles and public interventions. Humiliating language can be a radical democratic act when it represents a risky intervention that imagines new possibilities of living for sex and gender marginals.
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Bledsoe, Erik. "From “The Rise of Southern Redneck and White Trash Writers”1." In Rough South, Rural South. University Press of Mississippi, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496802330.003.0002.
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This chapter discusses the emergence of a new generation of southern writers who are giving voice to a different group of southerners, forcing their readers to reexamine long-held stereotypes and beliefs while challenging the literary roles traditionally assigned poor whites. According to Linda Tate, “traditionally, southern literature has been understood to be that written by white men and, on rare occasions, by white women—and, in almost all cases, by and about white southerners of the upper middle class.” This chapter looks at three new voices who write about the Rough South and the southern poor whites from within the class: Dorothy Allison, Larry Brown, and Timothy Reese McLaurin. The term “Rough South” refers to as the world of the redneck or white trash. The terms “redneck,” “white trash,” “cracker,” and “poor white” have all been used to describe certain white southerners.
Conference papers on the topic "Upper class men"
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Wu, Hansheng. "A class of decentralized robust controllers of uncertain large scale time-delay systems with unknown upper bounds of uncertainties." In 2015 23th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED). IEEE, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/med.2015.7158911.
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Engels, Jennifer, Barbara Bruno, Noelle Dasalla, and Daniela Böttjer-Wilson. "Class observations from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa highlight the need for active learning strategies to support diverse students in large classes." In Fifth International Conference on Higher Education Advances. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/head19.2019.9547.
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Compelling evidence indicates that “active learning” (learning by doing) is an effective pedagogy regardless of discipline or class size, and can be particularly effective with diverse students. This study investigated active learning practices in 64 classes at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, a US university with a highly diverse student body, using a “Passivity Indicator” (PI: ratio of class time spent in passive activities to total class time). For all classes, the mean PI was 43%. Statistical analysis reveals no significant differences in the PI of classes taught in STEM vs. non-STEM disciplines, or between upper vs. lower division courses. However, the PI in larger classes was found to be significantly greater than in small classes (64% vs. 39%, respectively; p=0.02). Moreover, classroom activities aligned with an active learning standard in Language and Literacy Development (e.g., students answering questions) occurred twice as often in small (24%) vs. large classes (12%, with p=0.02). Altogether, these findings indicate an opportunity for more active learning in large classes. We present a range of research-based pedagogical strategies that can be readily implemented in large classrooms, and encourage instructors to use their implementation as research opportunities to gather data on student success.
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Erickson, Marjorie, and Mark Kirk. "Addressing NRC Concerns Regarding Proposed CC N-830: Direct Use of Fracture Toughness for Flaw Evaluations of Pressure Boundary Materials in Class 1 Ferritic Steel Components." In ASME 2019 Pressure Vessels & Piping Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/pvp2019-93653.
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Abstract Section XI of the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code provides KIc and KIa fracture toughness models for ferritic steels. These models are based on linear elastic fracture mechanics methods and were initially developed in the 1970s; they remain largely unchanged since that time. Recently, a modification to Code Case (CC) N-830 has been proposed to provide alternative fracture toughness models for use in the flaw evaluation methodologies of ASME Section XI Nonmandatory Appendices A and K. The integrated models contained in proposed Code Case revision predict the mean trends and scatter of the fracture toughness behavior of ferritic steels throughout the temperature range from the lower shelf to the upper shelf. These models include the transition fracture toughness Master Curve and crack arrest master curve approaches that describe the temperature dependence and scatter in KJc and KIa, respectively in the lower transition temperature region. Also included is a model describing the temperature dependence and scatter of JIc on the upper shelf. Finally, linkage models quantify the inter-relationships between these toughness metrics and how they change due to the irradiation-induced hardening. Together, these models describe the temperature dependence and scatter of fracture toughness initiation and arrest behavior for all ferritic reactor pressure vessel (RPV) steels from lower shelf through transition to the upper shelf, all indexed to a single parameter: T0. In late 2017 the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) published a report, MRP-418, providing the technical basis for these revisions to CC N-830. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff review of the revised Code Case and MRP-418 resulted in substantive questions regarding validation and range of applicability of the various toughness models. An on-going effort addresses these concerns, and a revision to MRP-418 scheduled for publication later in 2019 will summarize that work. This paper describes the efforts of the WGFE CC-N-830 group to respond to the NRC’s comments, and summarizes responses to some of the comments.
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Fuehne, Joseph P. "Developing an Integrated Curriculum in Metrology for a Mechanical Engineering Technology Program." In NCSL International Workshop & Symposium. NCSL International, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.51843/wsproceedings.2013.31.
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The Purdue College of Technology statewide location in Columbus, Indiana has partnered with Cummins Inc. over the past several years to develop a metrology lab on the campus in Columbus. In conjunction with this effort, faculty of the Mechanical Engineering Technology program is continuing to make progress in developing an integrated curriculum to support the new lab. The curriculum is integrated since new classes and laboratory activities have been blended into the existing Bachelor of Science degree program in Mechanical Engineering Technology. Industry in the greater region surrounding Columbus is heavily weighted toward manufacturing and the metrology lab and curriculum development has received positive responses from many companies throughout the region.An existing freshman-level class has been modified, maintaining its current core learning objectives, by emphasizing the geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) aspects of the class. Companies often use GD&T in the manufacturing of products so a good understanding of topics such as circularity, parallelism, perpendicularity, cylindricity, and runout is necessary. And these characteristics of parts can only be inspected utilizing measurement techniques developed in the metrology lab and then applied to real parts.A sophomore-level class is under development with the title of “Dimensional Metrology”. This class serves as an introduction to tools used in dimensional measurement: micrometers, vernier calipers, height gages, coordinate measurement machines, and optical methods of measurement. Other subjects introduced during the class are statistical techniques, particularly gage repeatability and reproducibility studies, calibration using gage blocks, surface measurement, measurement by comparison, and pneumatic measurement.Two upper division classes have already been developed and offered to students in the MET program. The first was “Inspection and Validation of Product Design”, and the second was titled “Measurement Systems Analysis”. The first course extended the objectives and outcomes of the freshman-level course by completing a full study of GD&T and using the CMM to investigate parallelism, perpendicularity, and flatness. The second course focuses on evaluating a measurement system using statistical methods such as gage R&R studies. A capstone metrology reverse engineering assignment completes the class.