This means that, whilst "Old Labour" has ostracized owners of businesses and the middle classes by their policies on taxation and trade unions, "New Labour" now have an increased appeal to the rapidly growing middle classes. ... Yet another factor, which has always been taken into account when assessing voting behaviour, is the age of voters. Traditionally, support for the Conservatives increased with age as people's desire to change the world declines; older people are also more likely to vote. ... However, in 2001, as we can see in the table, the 65+ age group were the only group that ...

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In the second stage, the Early Industrial family were extended families beginning to become geographically mobile, dying out and becoming less common. ... This means that what the middle class do today, the lower class do tomorrow i.e. If the middle class husbands become more involved in housework then the working class husbands will copy and also become more helpful around the house. ... She collected information from 40 married women who were between the ages of 20 and 30, British or Irish born and had one or more children under the age of 5. She found greater equality in terms of the alloc...

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The Victorian Period (1870 v/s 1900) The Victorian age can be described as the age of transition, which by definition has a dual aspect when change is revolutionary: destruction and reconstruction. ... The Victorians reacted to their age with hope and dismay, optimism and anxiety. ... The early 19th Century saw the introduction of more canals, roads, railways and steamboats that hastened the growth of large-scale production by making possible a vast expansion of commerce. ... (Frasers Magazine: The Age We Live In.) ... John Morley believed "it was the age of science, new knowledge, ...

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From the age old archetypal story of the "Prince and the Pauper," to the formation of the Middle Class in the U.S. immediately after World War II, class is something that has existed and divided citizens of almost every nation. ... Louis in the early 1900s are [comparable] to the looting and angry protests that followed Brown's death" [Ray14]. ... The more familiar examples are the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. in opposition to Jim Crow legislation, protest in India by Mahatma Ghandi that inspire the nonviolence movement in the U.S., and union strikes that take place ...

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As Mark Twain commented, "It is my belief that Peter Pan is a great and refining and uplifting benefaction to this sordid and money-mad age; and the next best play is a long way behind- (qtd. in Jack 158). ... The middle class seems more difficult to define. ... The lack of commonality contributes to the instability of the middle class. ... In times of affluence, some members of the middle class acquire savings. ... He is really a good man as breadwinners go, and it is hard luck for him to be propelled into the room now, when if we had brought him in a few minutes earlier or later he might hav...

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Democracy v. Capitalism After two millions years of human evolvement, not only have we changed drastically and physically, but we have also formed different types of societies and governments throughout the years. Two of these important evolvements include democracy and capitalism which are used wi...

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This small percentage mainly consisted of children from upper and middle socio economic background. ... While in the 1940's it was mainly white males from high and middle socio economic back grounds the number of females, blacks and Asians accessing higher education has increased tremendously. ... This includes children from the low income and middle class parents. ... From the early 1950's, graduates from the public schools increasingly outperformed the candidates from the private school and with the abandonment of the college board essay entry exams by the three big elite colleges...

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For the purposes of this essay, we shall be looking at the academic achievement gaps between the middle and lower classes attending state-funded mixed schools. ... 'Children aged three and coming from families that had a high annual income were twice as likely to succeed as children aged three who come from families with the lowest annual income' (Hill, 2015). ... 'Children aged three and coming from families that had a high annual income have a 50% greater span of vocabulary than children coming from the poorest families. ... From a gender perspective, although the educational ...

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One of the most notable transformations during the period was on the industrial front as more and more people opted to transit from the agrarian life forms to embrace the industrial age. It is as a result of this outcome that the literature of the period, including Dickens' own David Copperfield opted to dwell on the social reforms that occurred in the typical society in the Victorian age. ... The industrialization during the period also led to the early development of the supply chain as industrialists sought to obtain raw materials for manufacture from the farming populace. ... Financia...

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In fact, it has been an issue that has followed human society since the early times of its civilization. Social classes and all the problems associated with it have always existed; from the early civilizations between the Tigris and the Euphrates to the Modern Society not forgetting the Greek and the Roman empires as well as the darkness of the Middle Ages. ... Chabert's France was in the early years of the restoration, the Napoleonic Empire felt and a new France was taking shape. ...

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This class system is reflected in Othello where Iago, is a middle class man who will never become any higher than he is, even though he knows this, he still envies the position that Othello gave Cassio. ... In Othello the middle and lower class is largely ignored and devalued. ... The audience was normally middle to upper class due to the context, where only the rich could afford to go to watch these plays. ... Marxism as an ideology appeared much earlier in time than we might believe, as it was Karl Marx who simply stated his findings but it may not be in him that these ideas originate from. ...

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Many children of middle or higher-class families enter school with knowledge of a hidden curriculum such as having basic reading and numeric skills. ... Since the Supreme Court overturned segregation laws in 1954, segregation grew in the early 1990s and segregation of African American students grew significantly across the United States. ... Statistics on educational achievement by race or ethnicity show that white, black and Asian children have better school rediness skills than Hispanics ages 3-6.Inlater education, Asian and white students still achieve higher scores than black and Hispanic ...

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Justice and Equality in Schooling Education has been a predominant social institution in Britain since as early as 1300AD, when 100 English towns were known to have schools; although it wasn't until 1850 when the introduction of schooling for girls was established. (Microsoft Encarta 2002) The government abolished school fees up to the age of 10, theoretically establishing equality within society and gradually the process of schooling has been searching for a sense of equality. ... Hence "the instrument of communication" (Bourdieu and Passeron, 1997: 73) is considered greater among tho...

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If a person builds a reputation of a worker that labors from early in the morning to late each evening, that person will be able to attain credit. ... Although scholars have analyzed various aspects of city life at the close of the Middle Ages in great detail, they have done relatively little by way of explaining why representatives of the different urban classes (especially the middle classes) embraced Luther's ideas from its very beginnings. ...

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The tone that Sinclair uses, at times, borders upon a satire of Victorian Middle England and this can be expressed through some main examples: Economic factors, the social hierarchy, patriarchal authority and lastly through social rank and differences. ... Harriett's profuse economic status is seen early in the text, when she is sent to a boarding school. ... Frean adopts is again symbolic of the patriarchal authority of both the Frean family and the Victorian age. ...

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We know that 'the male age-crime curve suggests that offending is concentrated among men in the 11-25 age range' (Ray, 2011:85). As the offending period is between these two ages, it also coincides with the fact that this is also the start of the age where boys will go through puberty, experience changes to their body, and male testosterone is at its peak. Towards the older ages of 16-25, this is where men are experiencing new things in their life; perhaps using drugs, or other aggressive types of risk taking. ... Hatty (2000) argues that men, particularly in this age bracket can ...

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