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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As Hazel Jones notes, there were many women who acted similarly, privileging a steady income and home over the possibility of happiness.6 If happiness was found in marriage it was usually just an added bonus; few marriages were actually created in happiness. ... Both women are beautiful and capable of the necessary talents such as piano playing and drawing, and their wealth, style and sense of superiority lend them the composed "air" which Caroline refers to. ...

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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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It is important to note that this paper will not be addressing in particular the development of other areas closely affected by Chinese politics or how these other areas have had an influence in Chinese politics. ... These two people belong to differing classes and there is no way the government can appease them, however a democratic system would bring into a sense of what the majority is looking for. ... Zhuang Junju goes on to proclaim that, "China will certainly keep its economy developing continuously, that the people will benefit from their common enrichment, and that the relations b...

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Chapter One ANALYSIS OF THE CONCEPT OF CASTE It seems necessary at the outset to point out the specific features of the caste system, in order more clearly to bring out the difference in social structure which has always existed between Europe and Africa. The originality of the system resides in the fact that the dynamic elements of society, whose discontent might have engendered revolution, are really satisfied with their social condition and do not seek to change it: a man of so- called "inferior caste" would categorically refuse to enter a so- called "superior" one....

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Giddens, A. (2006:43) states: Social change is difficult to define, because there is a sense in which everything changes, all of the time. ... What is cardinal to note is that people of a particular society must acknowledge that change is inevitable and therefore should actively participate in the change process. ...

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Pip's corruption is evident when Joe comes to visit him in London, "Not with pleasure, though I was bound to him by so many ties; no; with considerable disturbance, some mortification, and a keen sense of incongruity " (Dickens 225). ... Magwitch notes how he is taking the blame for everything, "It was always me that the money had been paid to, how it was always me that had seemed to work the thing and get the profit " (Dickens 350). ...

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Whereas the Chartist is described by Carlyle as one to who "the four-and-twenty letters of the Alphabet are still Roman enigmas to him-, Bleak House notes how it must be strange for a figure like Jo "to see people read and not to have the least idea of all that language -to be every scrap of it, stone blind and dumb". ... (Oddie, 1972: 12) Hortense is capable of showing her force, and achieveing her aim, and although Dickens doesn't explore her characeter extensively, one can sense that her angered point of view, but more importantly her action could easily influence those in similar circ...

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