The Disadvantaged Child: Studies on the Social Environment and the Learning Process, by Martin Deutsch and Associates. New York: Basic Books, 1967, 400 pp., $10.00

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1968 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 380-381
Author(s):  
Robert Coles
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Disadvantaged Child ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Social ◽  
Middle Class People

I must admit that I have never liked the term "disadvantaged child." One is somehow made to think of those earnest or smiling men and women from our exalted suburbs who organize a car pool once a week in order to go "help" the poor, benighted "slum children"–by taking them to a museum and buying them some cookies. I don't deny what cookies and Rembrandt can mean to a child, any child, nor do I wish to criticize unfairly the desperate efforts on the part of thousands of middle-class people to share what they have with others.

Bouzoukis and Belly Dancers, Drinkers and Dreamers: A Look at Greek Nightlife at the Crossroads 1

2018 ◽  
pp. 326-334
Author(s):  
Nick Pappas
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Social ◽  
Greek History ◽  
Greek Immigrants

Journalist Nick Pappas explores in detail the social and economic dimensions of Greek club and restaurant presentations in New York during the 1980s in “Bouzouki and Belly Dancers, Drinkers and Dreamers: A Look at Greek Nightlife at the Crossroads.” The author examines clubs like the Grecian Cave, which attract recent, working-class Greek immigrants. He contrasts them with more financially successful, upscale Greek supper clubs in Manhattan that appeal to celebrities and a more affluent clientele that largely non-Greek.He also profiles the men and women operating the clubs, who work with a product the component parts of which are Greek history, food, music, dance, hospitality, and other ephemeral qualities that give their product its appeal.

Boys, Girls, and Kodaks

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 215-255
Author(s):  
Lucie Ryzova
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Efficacy

This essay looks at a little studied genre of photographic albums—‘peer albums’—created by young Egyptian men and women through the middle decades of the twentieth century. These strongly gendered albums are characterized by the visual exclusion of social seniors, and were typically kept hidden from them. As photographic objects embedded in particular social relationships and contexts, these albums speak of how a classed and gendered self emerged in early- to mid-twentieth-century Egypt through a range of practices, of which photography-making (and album-making) was part. But photography also had its own agency in engendering new practices. The social efficacy of vernacular photographs was predicated on a combination of photographic indexicality and performativity. Through the making of such albums, young modernity-claiming Egyptians were asserting, performing and negotiating the parameters of their middle-class urbanity, their emerging positions as modern gendered subjects and as adolescents. Together with the range of peer activities in which they were embedded, these albums represented zones of autonomy free from patriarchal control, but still nested within larger patriarchal structures. Ultimately these albums show how particular historical subjects come to be through engagements with objects; and how patriarchy and individualism construct each other.

William Fremantle, Samuel Barnett and the Broad Church Origins of Toynbee Hall

1982 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 564-579 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. E. Nettleship
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Economic System ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Economic Success ◽  
The Poor ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual

Contemporaries and historians alike have regarded the 1880s as a watershed in Victorian thought. They have argued that before the 1880s the well-to-do held firmly to a belief in Political Economy and attributed economic success to the high moral character and hard work of the individual. By the 1880s these beliefs had begun to waver, and many who had themselves prospered from the new economic system began to question its assumptions and develop a sense of responsibility toward those beneath them in the social order. One institution which seems to represent this change is Toynbee Hall, the first English settlement house, founded in 1884. Headed by a middle-class clergyman, Samuel Barnett, staffed by well-educated and well-to-do volunteers and dedicated to bringing education and culture to the poor, it seems to be an example, par excellence, of the newly heightened middle-class social conscience typical of the 1880s.2 But close examination reveals that the origins of Toynbee Hall date back to the 1870s, to the broad church orientation and parish practices of Samuel Barnett. Rooted in his modest day-to-day pastoral work rather than in new concepts of social justice, Toynbee Hall raises the question of whether in fact the 1880s constitute a great divide in Victorian thought or a period of continuation, expansion and institutionalisation of earlier ideas and practices.

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