scholarly journals How does parental time relate to social class in a Nordic welfare state?

2021 ◽  
pp. 000169932110520
Author(s):  
Anne Lise Ellingsæter ◽  
Ragni Hege Kitterød ◽  
Marianne Nordli Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Lower Middle Class ◽  
Parental Time ◽  
Childcare Time ◽  
Upper Middle Class ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Class Divisions ◽  
The Relationship

Time intensive parenting has spread in Western countries. This study contributes to the literature on parental time use, aiming to deepen our understanding of the relationship between parental childcare time and social class. Based on time-diary data (2010–2011) from Norway, and a concept of social class that links parents’ amount and composition of economic and cultural capital, we examine the time spent by parents on childcare activities. The analysis shows that class and gender intersect: intensive motherhood, as measured by time spent on active childcare, including developmental childcare activities thought to stimulate children's skills, is practised by all mothers. A small group of mothers in the economic upper-middle class fraction spend even more time on childcare than the other mothers. The time fathers spend on active childcare is less than mothers’, and intra-class divisions are notable. Not only lower-middle class fathers, but also cultural/balanced upper-middle class fathers spend the most time on intensive fathering. Economic upper-middle and working-class fathers spend the least time on childcare. This new insight into class patterns in parents’ childcare time challenges the widespread notion of different cultural childcare logics in the middle class, compared to the working class.

Relation of Altruism to Age, Social Class, and Ethnic Identity

1973 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 567-572 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roland Lowe ◽  
Gary Ritchey
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Junior High ◽  
Return Rate ◽  
Lower Middle Class ◽  
Upper Middle Class ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship of age, social class, and ethnic identity to altruism was explored. 800 addressed but unstamped letters were dropped (‘lost“) at 4 locations, junior high, senior high, college, and adult sites, evenly distributed between 2 cities, one populated mainly by upper middle-class residents, and one populated mainly by middle and lower middle-class residents. One-half the letters were addressed to someone with a Spanish surname, and one-half to a Caucasian surname. Significant differences in the age and social class variables were found, but not in the ethnic identity variable. Older and upper middle-class Ss displayed more altruism as measured by their greater return rate of the lost letters.

‘An intensive study of – feet!’ in two films by Lois Weber: Shoes and The Blot

2021 ◽  
pp. 38-48
Author(s):  
Pamela Hutchinson
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Wage Inequality ◽  
Consumer Culture ◽  
Intensive Study ◽  
Lower Middle Class ◽  
Moral Compromise ◽  
The Relationship

In Shoes (1916), Lois Weber re-examines the relationship between shoes and social mobility. Far from guiding the working-class protagonist’s progress, a pair of worn boots trap her into a moral compromise, which destroys her hope of future advancement, either romantically or socially. Weber’s investigation into wage inequality, the rights of women and the influence of consumer culture via footwear continues in The Blot (1921), which revisits the same plot in a lower middle-class milieu and expands on the theme. Here, shoes are again a danger to women, but also an indicator of genteel distress and a cheap, impractical commodity, good only for profiteering rather than practicality.

Charabancs and Social Class in 1930s Britain

2015 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael John Law
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Class Mobility ◽  
Equivalent Motor ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Separate Class

The renowned writer J. B. Priestley suggested in 1934 that the motor-coach had annihilated the old distinction between rich and poor passengers in Britain. This article considers how true this was by examining the relationship between charabancs, motor coaches and class. It shows that this important vehicle of inter-war working class mobility had a complicated relationship with class, identifying three distinct forms of this method of travel. It positions the charabanc alongside historical responses to unwelcome steamer and railway day-trippers, and examines how resorts provided separate class-based entertainment for these holidaymakers. Using the case study of a new charabanc-welcoming pub, the Prospect Inn, it proposes that, in the late 1930s, some pubs were beginning to offer charabanc customers facilities that were almost the match of their middle class equivalent. Motor coaches and charabancs contributed to the process of social convergence in inter-war Britain.

scholarly journals Class, Gender, and Rhoticity: The Social Stratification of Non-Prevocalic /r/ in Edinburgh Speech

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 229-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Dickson ◽  
Lauren Hall-Lew
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Acoustic Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Analysis Of Variation ◽  
Middle Aged Adults ◽  
The Relationship

Despite the prominence of socioeconomic status as a factor in models of English variation, few studies have explicitly considered speakers whose social class status changed over their lifetime. This paper presents an auditory and acoustic analysis of variation in non-prevocalic /r/ among middle-aged adults from Edinburgh, Scotland. The speakers represent three groups: the Established Middle Class (EMC) and the Working Class (WC), both of which are characterized as socioeconomically non-mobile, and a third group we call the New Middle Class (NMC), comprising individuals born to working-class families and living middle-class lives at the time of data collection. The results demonstrate that realizations of /r/ have a significant correlation with socioeconomic status, and that the effect of class further interacts with gender. NMC speakers demonstrate the highest level of rhoticity of all three groups. In contrast, WC men show extensive derhoticization and deletion, while WC women show patterns of rhoticity that are more comparable to the NMC women. The EMC speakers show more non-rhoticity than either the NMC speakers or the WC women. A consideration of the indexical value of weak rhoticity highlights the need for more robust phonetic measures distinguishing non-rhoticity from derhoticization, and to that end we consider the cue of post-vocalic frication. Overall, the results point to the need to conceptualize socioeconomic status as potentially fluid and changeable across the lifespan, thereby improving models of the relationship between social class and linguistic variation.

scholarly journals PANDANGAN DUNIA DEWI ANGGRAENI DALAM NOVEL MY PAIN MY COUNTRY: KAJIAN STRUKTURALISME GENETIK LUCIEN GOLDMANN (DEWI ANGGRAENI’S WORLD VIEW IN MY PAIN MY COUNTRY: LUCIEN GOLDMANN GENETIC STRUCTURALISM STUDY)

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Derri Ris Riana
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Class Group ◽  
World View ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Lower Middle Class ◽  
Data Source ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Dewi Anggraeni’s World View in My Pain My Country: Lucien Goldmann Genetic Structuralism Study. This research aims to uncover human facts, collective subject, the structure of the novel My Pain My Country, which illustrates the character's problems, both concerning other characters and the environment, and the worldview expressed by the author as part of a social class group supported by Dewi Anggraeni's authorship helped to reconstruct the author's worldview. The analysis uses genetic structuralism with a dialectical method based on the concept of understanding and explanation in finding coherence of meaning. The data source is Dewi Anggraeni’s novel ”My Pain My Country”. The results showed that the author described “My Pain My Country” as human facts through geographical, sociological, psychological, historical, and ideological facts. Dewi Anggraeni describes the collective subject in two different social classes, namely the Chinese ethnic group to be described as the capitalists and indigenous people as the proletarians. The structure of “My Pain My Country” was constructed by relating the characters and the environment. The author represented the relationship between the characters in human opposition. Meanwhile, the relationship between the characters and the environment were represented through natural, social and cultural oppositions. The structure of the novel reflected the Dewi Anggraeni’s worldview as a form of sympathy, not only towards the victims of the 1998 tragedy from Chinese but also towards the lower middle class of indigenous people; and world views on nationalism, justice, and Chinese integration. Key words: genetic structuralism, human fact, world view Abstrak Pandangan Dunia Dewi Anggraeni dalam Novel My Pain My Country: Kajian Strukturalisme Genetik Lucien Goldmann. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengungkap fakta kemanusiaan; subjek kolektif; struktur novel My Pain My Country yang menggambarkan permasalahan tokoh, baik dalam hubungannya dengan tokoh lain maupun dengan lingkungannya; dan pandangan dunia yang diekspresikan pengarang sebagai bagian dari kelas sosial yang didukung oleh jejak kepengarangan yang turut merekonstruksi pandangan dunia Dewi Anggraeni. Analisis menggunakan strukturalisme genetik dengan metode dialektik yang berdasarkan pada konsep pemahaman dan penjelasan dalam menemukan koherensi makna. Sumber data adalah novel My Pain My Country karya Dewi Anggraeni. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa novel My Pain My Country sebagai fakta kemanusiaan digambarkan pengarang melalui fakta geografis, sosiologis, psikologis, historis, dan ideologis. Subjek kolektif dimunculkan Dewi Anggraeni dalam dua kelas sosial yang berbeda, yaitu kelompok etnis Tionghoa yang digambarkan sebagai kaum kapitalis dan pribumi sebagai proletar. Struktur novel My Pain My Country dibangun oleh hubungan antartokoh, serta tokoh dan lingkungan. Hubungan tokoh dan tokoh digambarkan dalam oposisi manusia. Sementara itu, hubungan tokoh dan lingkungan digambarkan melalui oposisi alamiah, sosial, dan kultural. Struktur novel itu merefleksikan pandangan dunia Dewi Anggraeni sebagai wujud keprihatinan, baik terhadap korban tragedi 1998 dari Tionghoa maupun kelompok menengah ke bawah, serta pandangan tentang nasionalisme, keadilan, dan integrasi Tionghoa. Kata-kata kunci: strukturalisme genetik, fakta kemanusiaan, pandangan dunia

Social-Class Differences on the Mc Carthy Scales for Black and White Children

1975 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 205-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan S. Kaufman ◽  
Nadeen L. Kaufman
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Racial Groups ◽  
Occupational Groups ◽  
White Children ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Class Differences ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship of social class to the cognitive and motor Indexes yielded by the McCarthy scales was explored for representative groups of black ( n = 154) and white ( n = 862) children aged 2½ to 8½ yr. For both racial groups, children categorized as middle class scored significantly higher than working-class youngsters on each of the six indexes. The pattern of mean Indexes for different occupational groups resembled the pattern of mean IQs found in previous studies.

Social class, language attitudes, and language use

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-30
Author(s):  
Binmei Liu
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Language Attitudes ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
Lower Middle Class ◽  
Class Privilege ◽  
Upper Middle Class ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Few previous studies have examined the impact of social class on language attitudes and language use in mainland China. A total of 215 questionnaires were collected from a university in China for this study. The participants were classified into four social classes: upper middle class, middle middle class, lower middle class, and lower class. Then an individual interview was conducted with 10 students. Findings show that the students from the upper middle class had significantly lower attitudes toward local dialects and they had the lowest percentage of current use of dialect at home. The study adds evidence to findings of previous studies that local dialects might face certain danger of maintenance. It also shows that this change would start from people from the upper middle class. The study also points out a possible future tendency that social class privilege will play a more significant role in English learning and education.

Adolescents’ understanding of social class: a comparison of white upper middle class and working class youth

2000 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 80-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Goodman ◽  
Benjamin C Amick ◽  
Maureen O Rezendes ◽  
Sol Levine ◽  
Jerome Kagan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Class A ◽  
Upper Middle Class ◽  
Class Youth

Social Class and Code Elaboration in Oral Communication

1971 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 421-427 ◽  
Author(s):  
Millicent E. Poole ◽  
T. W. Field
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Oral Communication ◽  
Class Groups ◽  
Parental Occupation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Linguistic Coding

The Bernstein thesis of elaborated and restricted coding orientation in oral communication was explored at an Australian tertiary institute. A working-class/middle-class dichotomy was established on the basis of parental occupation and education, and differences in overall coding orientation were found to be associated with social class. This study differed from others in the area in that the social class groups were contrasted in the totality of their coding orientation on the elaborated/restricted continuum, rather than on discrete indices of linguistic coding.

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