Essays about: "middle-class"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 157 essays containing the word middle-class.

  1. 1. Assessing The Relationship Between Social Networks And Integration In The Labour Market In Sweden: A Case Study Of Somali And Bosnian Second-Generation Immigrants In Växjö

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Bahati George; [2023]
    Keywords : integration; immigrants; social networks; social capital;

    Abstract : The integration of immigrants has been a significant area of research, focusing on aspects such as employment, housing, and education for newly arrived community members. In recent years, scholarly attention has increasingly turned toward social networks and their influence on immigrant integration into the labor market of the host country. READ MORE

  3. 2. 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

  4. 3. “Human Spiders”: Intellectual Observers, Degeneration and Darwinism in H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för engelska

    Author : Maja Loberg; [2023]
    Keywords : Degeneration; Fin de Siècle; Literature; Darwinism; H.G. Wells; The Time Machine; Intellectual Observer; Victorian literature; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : H.G. Wells’ novella The Time Machine (1895) tells the story of The Time Traveller who travels to the year 802,701. There, he encounters two evolutionary progressions of humanity. READ MORE

  5. 4. The Enlightenment Travels North : The ideology and practice in parish descriptions in early modern Norrland

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionen

    Author : Johan Persson; [2023]
    Keywords : Swedish Enlightenment; Enlightenment; topographical literature; parish descriptions; Abraham Abrahamson Hülphers; travel journals; Norrland; science in practice; superstitions; slumbering riches; imperial gaze; Northern Sweden; Medelpad; Ångermanland; Åsele Lappmark;

    Abstract : This thesis is a study of factory owner Abraham Abrahamson Hülphers’s collections of parish description about the parishes in Norrland, more specifically those about Medelpad and Ångermanland. The thesis seeks to explain how Hülphers’s collections were created in practice while also presenting the descriptions content and analysing the ideology it reproduced. READ MORE

  6. 5. Digital Media and Self-stigma: a Qualitative Study of the Emerging Cultural Middle Class and Their Media Practices

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och media

    Author : Aleksandra Dominika Kas; [2023]
    Keywords : Media practices; Cultural middle-class; Bourdieusian sociology; Interviews; Self-stigma; Habitus; Class reproduction;

    Abstract : Class-making from a Bourdieusian perspective is an ongoing process based on cultural consumption connected with a specific class. Despite significant research on cultural consumption, little attention has been paid to the internal processes that can influence class-making. READ MORE