By using the Egalitarian approach, the advertisers are trying to appeal to everyone, especially the common people. They accomplish their goals by giving people a false sense of equality as if class barriers do not exist. ... The ideology of the Democracy of Goods is basically defined by the sense that common people are entitled to enjoy the same exclusive products as the wealthy upper class. ... The Democracy of Afflictions shares the same concept as the Democracy of Goods, but it shows the common problems between classes in society instead of the common pleasures. ... But it is important to n...

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However, this common behavior among the working class is largely shaped, if not determined, by common financial status. ... He notes that, "the message received by children whose parents have battled with the world and come away feeling defeated is that they are better off not even trying." ... Implied by his parents' example is that the inability to find success financially in life shapes the common lifestyle of the working class and way of approaching life, particularly behavior. ... Good behavior is valued perhaps more than education because of the common failure of adults like his ...

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In contrast, as Ed Cohen notes in Talk on the Wilde Side, "agricultural labourers and the industrial working classes [ ] were largely determined by the material constraints circumscribing their lives- (19), which is to say that the work in which they engaged was mainly physical, intellectually disengaged, and under-waged, so that there was little possibility of accruing excess capital. ... Hence it included a wide array of individuals from merchant princes and entrepreneurial wizards, to an ever-growing number of professionals, bankers, bureaucrats, and civil servants, to local shopkeepers, ar...

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This association with hierarchy has led to a second common use of the term, a term indicating social standing or prestige. ... It is important to note here that the arguments do not suggest that the capitalist system is not highly unequal. ...

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The state-centric approach suggests that the common trend of Canadian deference to authority leads to a government acting largely as an autonomous entity making decisions for the nation. ... It is a common trend, regardless of class, that people gravitate towards others with similar paradigms. ... It is important to note, however, that even pluralists observe that the demands of different factions often compete. ... It is especially in this sense that pluralism draws on the values of liberalism, which emphasizes the basic rationality of all people as well as universal equality. ...

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