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Crumb, Loni; Haskins, Natoya; Dean, Laura; Avent Harris, Janeé – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2020
Scholars have argued that there is a silence related to social class status in educational literature. Consequently, the purpose of this phenomenological study was to develop an understanding of the educational experiences of working-class African American women doctoral students at predominantly White institutions and what factors influence their…
Descriptors: Working Class, Identification (Psychology), African American Students, Females
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Lee, Jamie Shinhee – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2016
Drawing on in-depth interviews, this article discusses folk notions of globalization and examines perceptual and attitudinal responses offered by educationally underprivileged working-class female senior citizens, arguably the most neglected and marginalized social group in contemporary Korea. The present study stresses the importance of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Older Adults, Females, Educationally Disadvantaged
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Aliakbari, Mohammad; Allahmoradi, Nazal – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
Basil Bernstein (1971) introduced the notion of the Restricted and the Elaborated code, claiming that working-class speakers have access only to the former but middle-class members to both. In an attempt to test this theory in the Iranian context and to investigate the effect of social class on the quality of students language use, we examined the…
Descriptors: Social Class, Language Usage, Pragmatics, Middle Class