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Pfafman, Tessa M. "Selling class constructing the professional middle class in America /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4756.
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Brown, Joseph V. "Classless: on Being Middle Class in America." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2013. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271785/.
Full textBeltz, Trevor Richard. "The Disappearing Middle Class: Implications for Politics and Public Policy." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/412.
Full textSchuele, Francis J. "Preferential option for the poor conversion and evangelization in middle-class America /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1987. http://www.tren.com.
Full textConnelly, Chloe. "Classless America?: Intergenerational Mobility and Determinants of Class Identification in the United States." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1479815137608335.
Full textBarrail, Halley Zulma. "Expansion of the Middle Class, Consumer Credit Markets and Volatility in Emerging Countries:." Thesis, Boston College, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:107373.
Full textThe literature on real business cycles finds that one reason why emerging economies are more volatile than developed small open economies is that they face greater financial frictions. Indeed, according to several measures of financial depth and access, financial systems in emerging countries are on average less developed than those in developed small open economies. Despite the lag in financial development, private credit, particularly unsecured credit to households, has been steadily increasing during the last two decades in emerging countries in Latin America. During this period of rising credit, various countries in the region observed an increase in the size of their middle income class population and the emergence of the vendor financing channel in their consumption credit market. Estimates by the World Bank suggest that the share of middle class households increased from 20.9 % in 1995 to 40.7 % in 2010. In addition, the share of poor households was approximately halved and reached 23.4 % at the end of this 15 year period. This phenomenon not only increased credit demand but also motivated the entry of new suppliers in the consumer credit market in countries like Mexico, Colombia, Chile and Brazil. In spite of a significant decline in unemployment in recent years, the lack of formal employment and poor credit history were still impeding many individuals from gaining access to consumer finance from traditional financial institutions. In order to enable new middle class shoppers access items typically offered by large retail stores, the retailers themselves started offering credit. In this dissertation, I study the relationship between middle class size, unsecured credit markets and aggregate consumption volatility in emerging countries. In the first chapter of this thesis, we examine the link between middle class size and consumption growth volatility using a sample of middle income countries. In the second chapter, we study the effect of an expansion of the middle class on vendor financing incentives and unsecured credit supply on its extensive margin. In the third chapter, I study business cycle implications of a reduction in the share of financially excluded households in an emerging economy. In the first chapter, I empirically examine the effect of middle income class size on consumption growth volatility in emerging countries. Using a panel data of middle income countries, I find that a larger middle class size tends to increase aggregate consumption growth volatility, particularly at lower levels of financial system depth. Financial development plays a significant role in determining the sign of the marginal effect of middle class size on aggregate volatility. Unlike emerging countries, the effect of the size of the middle class and the role of financial development on consumption volatility in developed countries is ambiguous. The key message of this analysis is that as more households escape poverty thresholds and reach the middle income class status in developing and emerging economies, it becomes more important to deepen financial systems from the perspective of aggregate consumption volatility. In the second chapter, I explore through the lens of a theoretical model, potential reasons triggering an increase in credit supplied by the non traditional financial sector, i.e vendors, at the extensive margin. I find that a reduction in the average risk of default and an increase in the market size of credit customers raise vendor financing incentives. This model rationalizes the observation that the improvement of economic conditions of the low-income and financially constrained households potentially led to increased credit supply by vendors in several countries of Latin America. In the third chapter, I study business cycle implications of a decline in household financial exclusion in a dynamic general equilibrium model suitable for emerging economies. Using Mexico as a case study, I estimate the model with Bayesian methods for the period 1995 to 2014. Standard measures of predictive accuracy suggest that the extended business cycle model with limited credit market participation outperforms a model with zero financial exclusion. The results of the estimation suggest that a rise in credit market participation in an emerging economy increases aggregate volatility of key macroeconomic aggregates, and that financial frictions play a key role in this relationship. I confirm this prediction by re-estimating the model for Mexico after splitting the sample into two non- overlapping decades. A key implication derived in this chapter is that a reduction of financial exclusion within an emerging country may lead to higher consumption growth volatility and trade balance volatility, and that fewer financial frictions dampen the marginal effect. As household financial access increases in these countries, a greater need for improving broad financial development measures arises
Pereyra, Cáceres Omar. "Time is Power: Aging and Control of Public Space in a Traditional Middle Class Neighborhood in Lima." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2016. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/79057.
Full textIn this article, I study the effect of aging of neighbors on local organizations in San Felipe, a middle-class neighborhood in Lima, Peru. I elaborate on this effect by using the case of the control of public space in the neighborhood. I conducted participant observation during a year. During that year, I observed the dynamics of local organizations’ meetings; I interviewed 46 residents of different characteristics; and I observed a large amount of situations andcontroversies among actors in San Felipe’s public space. I find that senior residents are the ones who impose their point of view about the neighborhood’s fortune. This result is surprising considering that senior residents are neither the most numerous group in the neighborhood, neither the one with higher resources. I claim that that happens because senior residents transform time (a scarce resource for young-adult neighbors, though abundant for the seniorneighbors) into organizational power. With that organizational power, senior residents are able to influence on the municipality’s functionaries who not only defend the discourse of senior residents regarding the use of public space, but also transform it according to this discourse.
Geddy, Pamela McLellan. "Cosmo Alexander: His Travels and Patronage in America." VCU Scholars Compass, 2000. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd_retro/88.
Full textPerkiss, Abigail Lynn. "Racing the City: Intentional Integration and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in Post-World War II America." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2010. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/89429.
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My dissertation, Racing the City: Intentional Integration and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in Post-WWII America, examines the creation, experience, and meaning of intentionally integrated residential space in the latter half of the twentieth century. Entering into the growing historiographical conversations on post-war American cities and the northern civil rights movement, I argue that with a strong commitment to maintaining residential cohesion and a heightened sense of racial justice in the wake of the Second World War, liberal integrationists around the country embarked on grassroots campaigns seeking to translate the ideals of racial equality into a blueprint for genuine interracial living. Through innovative real estate efforts, creative marketing techniques, and religious activism, pioneering community groups worked to intentionally integrate their neighborhoods, to serve as a model for sustainable urbanity and racial justice in the United States. My research, centered on the northwest Philadelphia neighborhood of West Mount Airy, chronicles a liberal community effort that confronted formal legal and governmental policies and deeply entrenched cultural understandings; through this integration project, activists sought to redefine post-war urban space in terms of racial inclusion. In crafting such a narrative, I challenge much of the scholarship on the northern struggle for racial justice, which paints a uniform picture of a divisive and violent racial urban environment. At the same time, my dissertation explores how hard it was for urban integrationists to build interracial communities. I portray a neighborhood struggling with the deeper meanings of integrated space, with identity politics and larger institutional, structural, and cultural forces, and with internal resistance to change. In that sense, I speak to the larger debates over post-WWII urban space; my research, here, implies a cultural explanation complementing the political and economic narratives of white flight and urban crisis that scholars have crafted over the last two decades. This is at once the story of a group of people seeking to challenge the seeming inevitability of segregation by creating an economically stable, racially integrated community predicated upon an idealized vision of American democracy, and it is the story of the fraying of that ideal.
Temple University--Theses
Bickerstaff, Jeffrey Christopher. "Tales from the Silent Majority: Conservative Populism and the Invention of Middle America." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1303310834.
Full textCollins, Connie L. "Framing the Great Divide: How the Candidates and Media Framed Class and Inequality During the 2012 Presidential Debates." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1384638521.
Full textWoodson, Terrance S. "Church planting dynamics in the black middle class community." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2000. http://www.tren.com.
Full textHoey, Dylan. "Milwaukee's Black Middle Class and the Struggle for Recognition." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1450.
Full textNewberry, Jay L. "The segregated distribution of middle class African American households in the Pittsburgh metropolitan statistical area." Huntington, WV : [Marshall University Libraries], 2005. http://www.marshall.edu/etd/descript.asp?ref=551.
Full textBirge, David (David Porter). "Embedded autonomies projecting an American middle-Class polis." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/99270.
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What possible response to the last forty years of depressed wages can the American middle-class have? Along with long established tactics on the consumption side of the production equation -- namely collective housing and collective purchasing -- a new form of economic autonomy is emerging from within the very tool-kit of Neoliberalism. Due to its vastly smaller scale and increased productivity, minimal environmental impact, and rapidly decreasing costs, automation technologies provide opportunity for collective ownership of joint factories. Here, the vast array of skilled middle-class workers can converge to share a base system of advanced production, consequently renewing their economic competitiveness. While individually the three forms of collective action might only require a diffuse spatialization, or no collocation whatsoever, the combination of all three collective strategies within the same spatial container suggests a potentially new form of living, one which goes beyond the simple abutting of live/work spaces, to the definition of a total life-world. To mediate this complexity I have appropriated a subtle archi-tectonic device, the plenum, as the infrastructure that simultaneously buffers and connects the two typically disparate worlds of material work and social re-production. The plenum does this by providing a flexible super-structure for services, people, and material to pass through, for program to attach to and utilize for its own specificity, and as a zone of mediation which allows spaces of industry and living to collide. With the collective control over these new spaces of both simple reproduction and extended production, founded on the appropriation of advanced forms of automated production, my thesis proposes the return to older modes of communal living and resilience through co-production and co-habitation, and hence the rebirth of the collective life-world. This design project is a first step in envisioning a new, American middle-class polis, defined here as the prior definition of a social and political form of existence. It harkens back to the very origin of the American mythology of self-sufficiency, to the Mayflower Compact, which set up a self-governance which understood that this self-sufficiency was not possible at the scale of the individual, but only at the scale of the community.
by David Birge.
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Fortner, Kitty M. "Social Class Influences| Student Engagement of Upper Middle Class African American Students." Thesis, University of Redlands, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3637581.
Full textThis study examined the social class of African American students in an upper middle class high school and their engagement in school influenced by a parent advisory group consisting of upper and middle class African American men. Student engagement has become a hot topic for school policy makers, administration, teachers, and parents at all educational levels. The question of how best to engage students for academic success is the priority. Although research suggests middle and upper class students do well in school as compared to lower class and working class students, the upper and middle class African American students in this particular school were failing until a group of parents intervened. The school experienced increased student engagement resulting in higher GPA, increased graduation rates, increased numbers of college enrollments and graduation rates, and a reduction in the achievement gap. Using the narrative inquiry method, a qualitative approach, the researcher listened to the participants' authentic voices and conveyed their story. Using a semi-structured conversational interview protocol, the participants shared their "lived" stories about the impact that a parent advisory group had on student engagement at the high school of interest. Findings suggest that when adults exhibit care, build meaningful relationships, and communicate that students are valued, student engagement increases and students are successful in school. The participants explained how the identity, behavior, and status of a group of parents gave options to a group of students in order to increase their academic success and hope for the future.
Delery, Alan. "School Choice: The Black Middle-class Dilemma." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2010. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1128.
Full textPrendergast, Neil. "American Holidays, A Natural History." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/204910.
Full textMorales, Gotsch Guadalupe. "Economic Remittances to Middle Class Peruvian Families| Origins, Use and Impact." Thesis, State University of New York at Albany, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3600438.
Full textThis dissertation generates a broader qualitative and quantitative profile of Peru's middle class. It examines an unstudied group of Peruvian immigrants living in the greater New York City area, who are largely of middle-class origins, as are their families who remain behind in Peru. It analyzes immigrants and non-immigrants' lifestyles, changes in family dynamics that occur as a consequence of emigration of one family member, and the effect of remittances on middle-class lifestyles, identity, and experience at home. A close analysis of participants' life-styles and interactions provides conclusions about what defines Peruvian middle class status, and the factors that shape an immigrant's decision to migrate and pursue remittances. By closely examining immigrants from Lima now living in the greater New York area, and their economic, social, and cultural ties to their households back in Peru, I examine remittances as the nexus linking immigrants to their families that are now redefined by a more distant relationship. As social ties are commodified, the relationships between immigrants and non-immigrants prioritize decisions about money, including its production, transmission, reception, and distribution. Consequently, family structure often shifts to reflect a new priority on investment projects for the future over family reunification. By researching immigration and remittances, I analyze this shift in middle-class Peruvian family structure and its impact on social class, identity, and even plans for future emigration. This dissertation also refocuses the analytical lens on the uniquely middle-class origins of Peru's immigrants, challenging scholarly and popular assumptions about immigration that portray poverty eradication and reduction as the primary reason for migration.
Keywords: Transnational Peruvian Immigration, Peruvian Middle Class, Peruvian Remittances.
Tutwiler, Patrick Alexander. "Class in the Classroom: Perceptions and Beliefs of Middle Class African American Male Teachers Teaching Low-income African American Students." Thesis, Boston College, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/2583.
Full textTrends in the racial make-up of students attending American schools in large districts showed significant growth in the number of Black and Latino students as far back as 1987. Further, more than half of the students who attend school in these districts were eligible for free or reduced lunch (Planty, 2008). In sum, urban schools are increasingly populated by low-income students of color. Shifts in the urban student population necessitate changes in the way in which teaching and learning are conceptualized. As the population of the nation's urban schools becomes increasingly Black and Hispanic, the need for a teaching force whose racial background matches the student body also increases (B. E. Cross, 2003; Dee, 2005; K. Howey, 1999; Ladson-Billings, 2000a). The suggestion is that teachers who teach children who are like themselves linguistically, culturally, and racially are the most ideal to facilitate learning (Martinez, 1994). Nonetheless, there is little scholarly discourse on the role or impact that socioeconomic class plays in scenarios where teachers and students share the same racial background. Using Ray Rist's (1970) seminal work as an anchor, this study employed a qualitative approach to examine the perceptions of five African American male teachers who identify as middle class and who teach in schools or programs that serve predominantly low-income African American students. Analysis of the interviews led to the following conclusions: the differences in socioeconomic class influenced the teachers' general perception of their students and their capability as learners. Notwithstanding these perceptions, the teachers expressed a profound sense of love and care for their students and believed themselves to be uniquely qualified to provide them with what they need beyond the traditional curriculum
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2012
Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education
Discipline: Teacher Education, Special Education, Curriculum and Instruction
Patterson, Tracy J. "Privileging privilege the African American middle class novel: a genre in the African American literary tradition." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 1996. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/2868.
Full textWhite, Derrick E. ""Not Free, Merely Licensed": The Black Middle Class As Political Language." The Ohio State University, 1999. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1363865000.
Full textEdwards, Mark Evan. "Toward explaining accelerated rates of employment among American mothers of preschoolers : 1965-1988 /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8876.
Full textTerrell, Billie P. "Impact of ethnic socialization, ethnic identity, and discrimination on self-esteem and parenting attitudes of middle-class African-American men." Click here for text online. The Institute of Clinical Social Work Dissertations website, 2003. http://www.icsw.edu/_dissertations/terrell_2003.pdf.
Full textA dissertation submitted to the faculty of the Institute of Clinical Social Work in partial fulfillment for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
Williams, Twyla Jeanette. "Middle class African American mothers' perceptions of White teachers' interactions with their African American children in predominately White suburban junior high schools." [College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1093.
Full textReynolds, Rema Ella. "Holla if you hear me giving voice to those we have missed : a qualitative examination of black middle class parents' involvement and engagement activities and relationships in public secondary schools /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1835603611&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
Full textTaylor, Tomaro I. "Longshoremen's Negotiation of Masculinity and the Middle Class in 1950s Popular Culture." Scholar Commons, 2016. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6592.
Full textHills, Franklin Jr. "The Middle-Class Religious Ideology and the Underclass Struggle: A Growing Divide in Black Religion." Scholar Commons, 2006. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3833.
Full textHarvey, Elizabeth Loyd. "Same place next summer: permanent chautauquas and the performance of middle-class identity." Diss., University of Iowa, 2011. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/979.
Full textJohnson, S. A. "The consumption of middle class American women's clothing through mail order catalogs, 1850 to 1900." Thesis, University of Brighton, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.399046.
Full textSmith-Tran, Alicia. "Racialized Runners: Life Stories of Middle-Class Black Women." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1523195798958536.
Full textSMITH, JACQUELINE R. "THE INFLUENCE OF UPWARDLY MOBILE AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN'S RACIAL IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT ON ANTICIPATED SATISFACTION OF COUNSELING SERVICES." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin990547863.
Full textWright, Nicholas A. "The Black Middle Class: A Continuous Product of Government Policy, Influence and Action." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2011. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/265.
Full textDavis, Welch JerMara Camille. "Race & Class: An Intergenerational Study of Privileged African Americans Educated in Predominantly White and Integrated Suburban Schools." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/556870.
Full textJones, Zella Higginbotham. "A Case Study of Middle Class African American Males Taking Advanced Mathematics Classes in High School." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/37549.
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Jimenez, Kathryn E. "“Youth Soccer in the American Middle-Upper Class: How parents use soccer to create good girls”." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1321967361.
Full textKing, Nikole June. "Men's physique standars of embodiment and Middle-class masculinity in Nineteenth-century British and American fiction /." Diss., UC access only, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=96&did=1906549281&SrchMode=1&sid=1&Fmt=7&retrieveGroup=0&VType=PQD&VInst=PROD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1270483425&clientId=48051.
Full textIncludes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 262-274). Issued in print and online. Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations.
Michel, Christopher Joseph. "Searching Assurances." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1150734392.
Full textCoşkun, Ufuk. "Job Searching among College-educated Americans: Managing Emotion Work, Social Networks, and Middle Class Identity." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/595983.
Full textBroadway, Deborah C. "A study of middle class black children and their families : aspirations for children, perceptions of success and the role of culture /." The Ohio State University, 1987. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487324944213107.
Full textHolt, Kathleen. "At home in the world : the American middle-class house as a twenty-first century public square." PDXScholar, 2008. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3982.
Full textRobinson, Jacquelyn Patricia Price. "Sociocultural Risk Factors of Non-Insulin Diabetes Mellitus Among Middle Class African Americans in Central Ohio." Columbus, OH : Ohio State University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1047487253.
Full textTitle from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xviii, 233 p.: ill. Includes abstract and vita. Advisor: Douglas E. Crews, Dept. of Anthropology. Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-233).
Roig, Olivia. "Green Day: Rock Music and Class." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1460052619.
Full textDavis, Sandra L. Vaidya Sheila R. "Race-related stress, quality of life and coronary heart disease (CHD) risk in middle-class african american men /." Philadelphia, Pa. : Drexel University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1860/3266.
Full textMcDaniel, Karen Cotton. "LOCAL WOMEN: THE PUBLIC LIVES OF BLACK MIDDLE CLASS WOMEN IN KENTUCKY BEFORE THE “MODERN CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT"." UKnowledge, 2013. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/history_etds/22.
Full textBurr, Sandra. "Beneath the Umbrellas of Benevolent Men: Validation of the Middle-Class Woman in "Little Women" and "Five Little Peppers and How They Grew"." W&M ScholarWorks, 1991. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625669.
Full textWilliams, Aisha D. "Exploring the theoretical and philosophical frameworks that influence private practitioners' mental health treatment of middle-class African- American women." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2010. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/213.
Full textHeath, Corliss D. "Not on My Street: Exploration of Culture, Meaning and Perceptions of HIV Risk among Middle Class African American Women." Scholar Commons, 2014. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5625.
Full textLock, Sarah Jo. "The people in the neighborhood samaritans and saviors in middle-class women's social settlement writings, 1895-1914 /." [Fort Worth, Tex.] : Texas Christian University, 2008. http://etd.tcu.edu/etdfiles/available/etd-10152008-181145/unrestricted/Lock.pdf.
Full textWu, Meng-Hui Margaret 1962. "Clothing for the female crutch user: Case studies of the clothing worn by the middle class American female crutch user." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291750.
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