Essays about: "lower-class"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 21 essays containing the word lower-class.

  1. 1. The Relevance of Social Class : A Content Analysis of EFL Coursebooks for Swedish Upper Secondary School

    University essay from Jönköping University/Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation

    Author : Andreas Andersson; [2023]
    Keywords : EFL Coursebooks; Social Class; Neo-Marxist Theory; Upper Secondary School;

    Abstract : This study focuses on social class in Swedish EFL coursebooks. The aim is to investigate what different social classes are represented and how much space they are given, as well as how they are portrayed in three Swedish EFL coursebooks aimed at English 5 for upper secondary school. The selected coursebooks Viewpoints 1, Blueprint A 3. READ MORE

  3. 2. In Bondage at the Bottom of Hierarchy : A Study of Female Victimisation and the Exploitation of the Poor in Crime and Punishment

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

    Author : Josefin Lann; [2023]
    Keywords : Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Crime and Punishment; Marxism; feminism; class struggle; female victimisation; double oppression;

    Abstract : This study investigates the societal tribulations of impoverished men and women in nineteenth-century St Petersburg in Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment. The analysis is centred around the novel’s portrayals of class struggle, female victimisation, and double oppression in capitalist and patriarchal society. READ MORE

  4. 3. From the Margins to the Center : Hip Hop and Rap as Infrastructure for the Black Americans in the 1980s and early 1990s

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Hugo Valentin-centrum

    Author : Senta Terner; [2022]
    Keywords : Hip hop; Rap; Black Americans; Racism; Postcolonial Studies; Popular Culture;

    Abstract : This thesis examines whether hip hop, and rap in particular, was an infrastructure for the lower-class of Black Americans in the 1980s and early 1990s to transport their concerns, knowledge, and protest from the margins to the center. It first demonstrates what issues Black Americans from the ghetto have raised in terms of content in the first place. READ MORE

  5. 4. Sågverkens syn på granbarkborreskadat virke i södra Sverige – användningen och framtiden

    University essay from SLU/School for Forest Management

    Author : Reinder De Vries; Erik Sjöberg; [2022]
    Keywords : blånadssvamp; sågad trävara; insektsangrepp;

    Abstract : Granbarkborreskadat virke har länge varit ett faktum för markägaren men också för skogsföretagen och sågverken. Skogsföretagen vill behålla en god relation med leverantörerna, det vill säga skogsägarna, och känner sig därför tvungna att köpa in sämre virke som håller sämre kvalitéer. READ MORE

  6. 5. Conflict Discourse in Television Series – The Functions and Uses of Silence in Relation to Social Class

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Linnea Elin Andersson; [2020-04-30]
    Keywords : engelska; silence; television; conflict management strategies; conflict; conversation; turn-taking; communication; avoidance; confrontation; conversation analysis; qualitative research;

    Abstract : This study paper investigates the correlation between social class and the use of silence in conflict discourse, by comparing the interactional style and turn-taking behaviour in two television series representing the upper and lower class. To this end, the study analyses conflict conversations inThe Crown (UK) andShameless (US) to show how in both scripts writers use specific linguistic elements to represent how these social classes are depicted in media. READ MORE