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Melanie Nunes – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This qualitative case study explored working class individuals' perceptions of social mobility in a changing the community. The explored community was traditionally a working class community. It was near a metropolitan area that was growing more prosperous. Many residents commuted to the metropolitan area and the community started turning into a…
Descriptors: Working Class, Social Mobility, Middle Class, Social Class
Moloney, Brendan Joseph – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this descriptive study was to examine the commitment of Catholic secondary schools to the poor, working, and middle class families of the New York City metropolitan area through the perception of the school president. This study sought to identify the socioeconomic class of students in the Catholic high school populations within…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, High Schools, Presidents, Administrator Attitudes
Lindsay Ellen Mason – ProQuest LLC, 2021
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 relationships with their parent(s)/guardian(s). My primary research…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Working Class, Middle Class Culture, Standards
Givre, Sophia – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation analyzes how mandated high-stakes tests and college and career ready standards influence local curricula and the reproduction of inequalities between students. I found that inequalities were reproduced based on distinctions between students in co-taught courses (classes that required the presence of an aide to assist students…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Social Class, Teaching Methods, Advanced Placement
Milhomme, Marcy B. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
I set out to explore the question: How do middle-class, working-class and low-income mothers experience their children's out of school summer time? Using qualitative basic interpretive approach, study findings draw from interview data, journal entries and participant observations from a study completed with 22 mothers of varying socioeconomic…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Attitudes, Middle Class, Working Class
Yoon, Irene H. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This dissertation investigates how the intersections of race, class, and gender operate in the everyday teaching and professional norms of middle-class White women teachers--particularly in schools such as the one in this study, where a majority of middle-class, White women teachers serve predominantly low-income, racially and ethnically diverse…
Descriptors: Jews, Women Faculty, Females, Whites
Lewis, Andrea D. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The intent of this study was to explore the perceptions of Black middle and upper class preservice teachers as they relate to teaching and learning in high poverty urban schools. Participants included 11 senior early childhood education preservice teachers at a historically Black college in the southeast region of the United States. The study was…
Descriptors: African American Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Middle Class, Social Class
Sarkar, Sreela – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation studies the promise of inclusion in the global information society for marginalized groups in India, a nation that represents a modular case for technology and modernization initiatives in the global South. There has been significant research on the problematic notion of the "digital divide," based on the premise that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Technology, Social Influences, Access to Computers
Calarco, Jessica McCrory – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Despite popular beliefs about social mobility in American society, research consistently shows that inequalities are reproduced across generations. And yet, while social reproduction hinges on the transmission of advantages from parents to children, scholars take for granted children's role in this process. We do not know whether children…
Descriptors: Social Class, Longitudinal Studies, Ethnography, Working Class
Boen, Jennifer – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study provides two perspectives on the various character traits provided by character education programs by comparing the voices of minority and lower-lower middle class stakeholders with those of upper middle class stakeholders. The literature on the values and virtues based approaches to moral development and character education were…
Descriptors: Values Education, Middle Class, Social Class, Differences
Ryan, Helen-Grace – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This qualitative study documents the experiences of 15 women from different social class backgrounds who are members of a women's fraternity/sorority at a large, public, institution located in an urban area in the Mid-West. The purpose of the study was to better understand the relationship between social class and the nature and impact of the…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Social Status, Family Income, Females
Levey, Hilary Leigh – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Many parents work more hours outside of the home and their lives are crowded with more obligations than ever before; many children spend their evenings and weekends trying out for all-star teams, travelling to regional and national tournaments, and eating dinner in the car while being shuttled between activities. What explains the increase in…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Competition, Child Rearing, Employed Parents
Martin, Nathan Douglas – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The United States experienced a tremendous expansion of higher education after the Second World War. However, this expansion has not led to a substantial reduction to class inequalities at elite universities, where the admissions process is growing even more selective. In his classic studies of French education and society, Pierre Bourdieu…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Working Class, Middle Class, Recreational Activities
Xiao, Hui – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This project stands at the juncture of modern Chinese literature, post-socialist studies, cultural history of divorce, and critical studies about global middle-class cultures. Employing analytical tools mainly from literary studies, cultural studies and feminist theories, I examine stories, novels, films and TV dramas about divorce produced…
Descriptors: Divorce, Foreign Countries, Television, Films