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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
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Krahn, Harvey J.; Chow, Angela; Galambos, Nancy L.; Johnson, Matthew D. – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2018
This paper asks whether concerns about social problems decline with age. Unconditional growth models (without covariates) revealed a decline over 25 years (age 18 to 43) in concerns about racial discrimination, treatment of Aboriginal Peoples, female job discrimination, unemployment and environmental pollution. Educational attainment was not…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Young Adults, Late Adolescents, Adults