Meanings of Class and Social Mobility: the Public and Private Lives of Female Civil Servants

1990 ◽  
pp. 206-225
Author(s):  
Kay Sanderson
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Private Lives

A Report on the Published and Unpublished Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford 1836-1854

1973 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 37-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meredith B. Raymond
Keyword(s):  
Good Health ◽  
Robert Browning ◽  
Elizabeth Barrett Browning ◽  
Only Child ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Private Lives ◽  
Financial Uncertainty ◽  
Low Visibility ◽  
Sick Room

Florence and Swallowfield. The very names symbolize the high and the low visibility now associated with Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Mary Russell Mitford. Other contrasts could be drawn. The stifling sick-room and the garden of geraniums, the “poetess” and wife of Robert Browning and the “authoress” of Our Village who was the only child of Dr. Mitford, country gentleman. Or, to mention a point on which Miss Mitford showed some sensitivity, a life of financial freedom versus one of financial uncertainty. What was the attraction which insured the constant and copious interchange of letters, a record which can only be labelled remarkable in a century of remarkable letter-writers? The answer is a multiple one, as whoever reads Elizabeth's side of this correspondence will discover. But such a reader will also discover a whole host of subjects and figures which will give him fresh insights into the public and private lives of the correspondents, their families, and their literary circles. The excerpt which follows indicates the ease with which Elizabeth Barrett shared her thoughts with Miss Mitford whether on topics creative or critical, domestic or political, and whether uttered in sickness or in relatively good health.

The Social Media Politicians

2020 ◽  
pp. 272-286
Author(s):  
Víctor Hernández-Santaolalla
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Political Candidates ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Private Lives ◽  
The Social

Social media brings to the forefront two very important factors to today's politics: the prominent role of the internet and the importance of personalisation which is closely tied to a tendency of political candidates to overexpose their private lives. This does not mean that the candidate becomes more relevant than the political party or the ideological platforms thereof, but the interest tends to fall on the candidate's lifestyle; on their personal characteristics and their most intimate surroundings, which blurs the line between the public and private spheres. Online profiles are used as a showcase for the public agenda of the politician at the same time as they gather, on a daily basis, the thoughts, tastes and leisure time activities of the candidates. This chapter offers a reflection of the ways in which political leaders develop their digital narratives, and how they use the social media environment to approach citizens.

scholarly journals The Public and Private Lives of Mennonite Kolkhoz Chairmen in the Khortytsia and Molochansk German National Raĭony in Ukraine (1928-1934)

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin P. Neufeldt
Keyword(s):  
Nazi Germany ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Daily Routines ◽  
Private Lives ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Economic

This article examines the role that Mennonites played in the establishment and management of kolkhozy in the two largest Mennonite settlements (Khortytsia and Molochansk) in Soviet Ukraine during dekulakization and collectivization (1928-1934).  More specifically, it investigates the social and ethnic criteria used in selecting Mennonites to be kolkhoz chairmen; the duties and daily routines of chairmen; the conflicted relationships that chairmen had with local authorities and kolkhoz members; the numerous challenges that chairmen encountered during the 1932-33 famines; and the mechanisms that local authorities and kolkhoz members used to control, embarrass, and discipline chairmen.  It also discusses the negative repercussions that the rise of Nazi Germany had for Mennonite chairmen, and how political, economic, agricultural, social, and ethnic policies and conditions made it impossible for Mennonite chairmen to succeed.

scholarly journals Transfer investment on education on a free cost basis: some evidence from Portugal, Spain, Greece and Italy

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (93) ◽  
pp. 777-803
Author(s):  
Luisa Cerdeira ◽  
Belmiro Cabrito ◽  
Maria Lourdes Machado-Taylor ◽  
Tomás Patrocínio
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
Brain Drain ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Primary Schooling ◽  
The Public ◽  
Education Degree ◽  
Socio Economic Impact ◽  
The Eu

Abstract For decades, education has been viewed as an instrument for social mobility and also as a tool for economic growth and social development. Over the recent years, we have witnessed an output movement of highly qualified graduates, from peripheral southern Europe to the more developed countries of the EU and OECD. In this article, we analyse the reality of four countries: Portugal, Spain, Greece and Italy. In order to examine the socio-economic impact of this brain drain, it will be introduced an estimation using OECD statistics (2014) of the public and private costs to educate a student from primary schooling through a higher education degree. In spite of the differences among these countries’ experiences, there is no doubt that these countries “offered” high qualified workers for free or at a zero cost basis to the “importing” countries.

scholarly journals Public and Private Lives: Judith Butler’s Grief and the Loss of Black Self

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-56
Author(s):  
Jacob Maze
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
The State ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Public Spheres ◽  
The Public ◽  
Private Lives ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Systemic Oppression ◽  
Public Bodies

Abstract By looking at Butler’s theories on grief and mourning, I focus on her concept of ecstasy, or the state of being outside of one’s self, which illustrates the dependency individuals have on social norms as well as the vulnerability such a system of recognition entails. Using this framework, I discuss how the private and the public spheres can construct public bodies. If this happens, individuals can have little say over how their bodies are socially signified. To show this, I use the case of Black women in the USA, where systemic oppression constantly draws their bodies into the public’s eye.

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