In George Mowry's "Progressivism: Middle-Class Disillusionment" he thinks that the Progressives were middle-aged, economically well off, white men and women. Simply put, most had a college education and were of the "solid middle class". ... The "solid middle class" reformers saw themselves as the only hope for the society. ... The "solid middle class" had the destiny to show the less fortunate they way to salvation and to better opportunities. ... Compared to the big businessmen the small business owners were against the big business reforms to eli...

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India has become one of the most successful regions of our age when it comes to creating consumerism products and goods. ... Also, the number of middle class is increasing more and more because the people of India are switching from the agriculture field, to the service industry, where the growth is reasonably high, compared to agriculture which has slowed down tremendously in India. ... The conservatives are your everyday middle class. ... Finally, competitive markets decreased prices a great deal and have made the manufacturer forced to keep product quality high. A trendy lifestyle is ...

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The main political parties with a high chance of being elected are Labour and Conservatives. ... 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. ... However, in 2001, as we can see in the table, the 65+ age group were the only group that actually preferred Conservative to Labour. ... Party support by ...

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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 allocation of domestic tasks between partners in middle rather than working class. However, she also found that few men do a lot of housework or childcare, and ...

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Even they lose their jobs, they receive high amount of money which is enough to provide the 16000 people who were suffering from unemployment. The continuation of the impacts of the Great Recession will affect not just the people who are now in prime age, but also the new generation, who will have to work in the future generation. ... According to Pew research, the United States has seen an increasing concentration of wealth to the detriment of the middle class and the poor with the younger generations being especially affected. The middle class dropped from 61% of the population in 1971 to 51...

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Urbanisation takes place due to large amounts of people moving closer to areas with high job availability in search of employment, a better life and industrial workers wanting to live close by to their place of employment. ... The empowering of the middle class gave the population a new power and purpose; this power was obtained by their place in society amplifying and the middle class no longer depending on their riches or land that they owned, but rather by their new places in society, as business men, traders, and entrepreneurs. ... However, the middle class' downside was that they be...

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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. ... During the time of Shakespeare, black people were seen as inferior and did not hold high positions in society, but in Othello, this idea is challenged directly as Othello holds a high position within a white society of Venice. ... We learn of his successes as a commander of the military creating himself such a high position in white society. ... Then when we see a young white girl marry an...

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As a young man, Flaubert was well aware of incompetence in the medical profession, and the middle class "lip service", which her portrayed through Homais in Madame Bovary, and began to despise the mendacity of middle class all the more as he embraced the writings the likes of Rousseau, Lord Byron, and Sir Walter Scott. ... She also died at a very young age, leaving Delmare with many debts and a young child to rear. ... While the novel of manners shared and exalted middle class values, Flaubert is deeply ironic and ruthlessly critical of them. ... A combination of naturalism and aestheticism...

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However Official Statistics do not have a high representativeness, due to the high amount of crimes that are unreported or unrecorded. ... The working class is more likely to get arrested and go to jail then the upper/middle class, as they cannot afford to pay their bail. The working class are also more likely to be caught during street crimes and the bourgeoisie are more likely to be in high office positions so they will not be out on the streets. ... From these surveys the criminal justice system (CJS) can see how frequently people commit crimes that they would not admit to directly ...

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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). ... Industry and its technologies opened a set of social relations that gave rise to the middle class. ... 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. ...

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(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 those from middle class origins, than those of poorer linguistic backgrounds; which are often the working class. ...

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