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In the early nineteenth century, the rise of industrialism and the accelerated enclosure of farmable land combined to drive England's rural population into rapidly growing urban centers. London, in particular, was ill-equipped to deal with the resulting population boom, and labo…

This constructionist phenomenological dissertation study explored stories from nine working-class, first-generation college students, specifically how middle-class socialization on a four-year university campus located in the Mountain West region of the United States impacts the…

The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 proved to be a watershed that altered the demographic composition of the United States in unexpected and unprecedented ways. Immigrants from India and Pakistan (part of South Asia) represented a highly educated elite migration in the 1…

This dissertation examines the production and consumption of nature in middle-class American holidays. Focusing on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, it follows the creation of new symbols and practices associated with Easter, the Fourth of July, Thanksgiving and Christmas.…

This study explores the interrelated issues of family and the development of gender roles within contemporary middle and upper-middle class Muslim Egyptian families. It considers the ways in which these families respond to the interplay of contemporary material forces, the basic…

The main goal of this study is to examine the characteristics of the networks of Tehrani men and women (structure, composition, and content), their effects upon the flow of resources, and the association between the structure of network and marital relationships. In addition to …

The thesis is a study of migration and its links to belonging, class, national identity and recognition in United Arab Emirates (UAE) federation. It focuses on Pakistani migrants, especially Pakistani professionals in Dubai, which is the second largest Emirate of the UAE because…

This thesis argues that clubs and associations provided a major arena for masculine social life in the period from 1800 to 1914. Using a range of sources from life writings and administrative records to photographs, drawings and buildings, the thesis presents a detailed picture …

This thesis, set against the background of accounts of globalisation, aims to figure out the consumer orientation of the middle class in contemporary China, in particular how the new elements in consumer orientation operate in the Chinese context. It focuses on the contemporary …

This thesis provides an ethnography of the final year at an emerging middle-class private high school in the Northeast of Brazil. It draws on 15 months of fieldwork, including participant observation in the classroom wherein I followed students whilst they prepared for vestibula…

In the late 19th century, a group of Black newly freedmen purchased a plot of land in Durham, North Carolina that would be later known as the Hayti District. Influential Black leaders identified this community as the nation's Black Mecca and soon became the home of thousands of …

The focus of this dissertation is Turkish women of "Generation 1980" (born in the late 1960s and early 1970s), a cohort of urban, middle-class, and secular women who came of age in the 1980s in Istanbul, and their struggles with and against "traditional" and "modern" gender ideo…

This dissertation deals with the construction of ethnic subjectivities of middle class adolescents who live in the social center of Israel. It examines the way public discourses and practices delineate and construct cultural differences between Mizrahi and Ashkenazi adolescents.…

The Serviceman's Readjustment Act, informally known as the G.I. Bill, has long been regarded as one of the most influential pieces of legislation that has ever been passed by Congress. According to Suzanne Mettler's groundbreaking book, Soldiers to Citizens, 80% of the men who w…

This dissertation tackles one central problem: What were the intellectual and social origins of New Order Indonesia (1966-1998)? The analytic lens that this study employs to examine this society is the Indonesian middling classes' pursuit of modernity. The dissertation comes in …

The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to understand how Black middle-class women describe their experiences that influenced their decisions to be stay-at-home mothers in the southeastern United States. Data were obtained from 32 Black middle-class stay-at-home mo…

As the long 19th century drew to a close in the Ottoman Middle East, existing structures of power, legitimacy and knowledge came under increasing strain. The certainties of rank, faith and gender fell away in the face of several internal and external challenges. One of the most …

Esta investigação tem como objetivo principal identificar os arquétipos de morar do século XXI da classe média ludovicense (pessoa que nasce em São Luís - Maranhão, Brasil), a partir de seus novos arquétipos sociais dominantes e, igualmente, propõem-se a identificar e caracteriz…

Storming Hillbilly Heaven is a history of the Young Patriots Organization, a radical group composed primarily of white southern migrants to Chicago who operated in the Uptown neighborhood during the late 1960s and the early-1970s. The Young Patriots are most famous for their par…

Roughly 62% of Americans identify as middle-class but do not meet the middle-class characteristics long depicted in the national imagination: homeownership, savings, disposable income, and a comfortable retirement. Forty percent say they cannot cover an unexpected bill of 400. B…