Insiders, Outsiders, and Class Anxiety

2019 ◽  
pp. 150-170
Author(s):  
Adrienne Akins Warfield
Keyword(s):  
Class Anxiety

The New Service Class: Housing, Consumption, and Lifestyle among London Bankers in the 1990s

1997 ◽  
Vol 29 (11) ◽  
pp. 2061-2078 ◽  
Author(s):  
L M McDowell
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Professional Women ◽  
Service Industries ◽  
Market Change ◽  
Residential Preferences ◽  
Producer Service ◽  
Professional Employees ◽  
Social Polarisation ◽  
Class Anxiety ◽  
The City

In this paper I draw on a survey of professional employees in three of the City of London's merchant banks to assess arguments about the residential preferences and lifestyle decisions of the ‘new’ middle class. It has been argued that an increasingly polarised workforce within producer service industries has, in part, led to greater social polarisation in inner areas through the mechanism of gentrification. Further the effects of the feminisation of the labour market, especially the rise in the numbers of professional women in employment, have been adduced as a significant factor in housing-market change. A number of commentators have suggested that women in professional occupations are key players in inner-area gentrification, although the evidence here is limited. Further, middle-class anxiety about employment prospects has been identified by Lyons in a recent article in this journal as a further reason for increased preferences for inner-area locations. In this paper I assess these arguments.

Insiders, Outsiders, and Class Anxiety

2019 ◽  
pp. 150-170
Author(s):  
Adrienne Akins Warfield
Keyword(s):  
Regional Identity ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
Racial Consciousness ◽  
Southern Identity ◽  
The Common ◽  
Class Status ◽  
Class Anxiety ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Voice

This chapter compares Welty’s “Where Is the Voice Coming From?” with Bob Dylan’s “Only a Pawn in Their Game,” exploring the relationship between class, racist violence, and regional identity through examining the common assumptions both artists shared about Medgar Evers’ murderer and his motivations. The essay argues that class anxiety manifests itself both in acts of racist violence like Beckwith’s and in artistic conceptualizations of such violence as the exclusive domain of the white Southern underclass. The chapter also analyzes the ways in which the revisions that Welty made to the story after Beckwith’s arrest were connected to the class status, Southern identity, and racial consciousness of the killer. The resemblances between Dylan’s and Welty’s responses to the Evers murder show that the tendency to associate racist violence with the economic resentments of lower-class whites is evidenced among both Northern “outsiders” and Southern “insiders.”

scholarly journals En híbrida mezcolanza: Exile and Cultural Anxiety in Alirio Díaz Guerra’s Lucas Guevara

2005 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Browitt
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Latin American ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Implied Author ◽  
Point Of Entry ◽  
Class Anxiety ◽  
Materialistic Values ◽  
Latin American Immigration

The novel Lucas Guevara, written by the Colombian exile, Alirio Díaz Guerra, was first published in New York in 1914. It is considered to be the earliest novel about Latin American immigration to the United States written in Spanish. This fact alone merits its study. A second edition was published in 2001 along with a critical-biographical introduction, which presents the novel as the precursor of a developing genre of Hispanic immigrant literature centred on the naïve Latin American migrant who arrives in the United States inspired by the opportunities which the metropolis supposedly affords, but who nevertheless suffers a series of misfortunes because of the inability to adapt to the new culture. On the level of overt content, the novel is a lachrymose, stereotypical and conventional denunciation of the supposed evils of an amoral US society and the libertine and materialistic values underpinning it. But on a much deeper level, a picture emerges of Díaz Guerra himself as a displaced, disenchanted intellectual exile who suffers (or has suffered) an acute cultural and class anxiety in the transition from a patrician Arcadia to the heart of capitalist, industrial modernity. Through a reading of the narrative voice, and by extension the implied author, we witness his difficult coming to terms with a highly-charged New York society (in comparison to his homeland), not only because of the sexual liberation brought on by secular modernization, but also because of the close proximity of volatile, eroticised bodies on the over-crowded Lower East Side of New York, the scene of the novel and Díaz Guerra’s point of entry into the United States. The novel also provides an occasion to contrast how Díaz Guerra deals with the condition of exile, in contrast to that most emblematic of Latin American political refugees, José Martí.

Investigating Language Class Anxiety Using the Focused Essay Technique

1991 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 296-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
PETER D. MACINTYRE ◽  
R. C. GARDNER
Keyword(s):  
Language Class ◽  
Class Anxiety

scholarly journals On the Fringes of the Classless Society: Notes on Constantin Stoiciu’s Film Scripts

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
pp. 127-136
Author(s):  
Radu Toderici
Keyword(s):  
Classless Society ◽  
Class Anxiety ◽  
Film Scripts ◽  
Romanian Cinema

"Focusing on the film scripts of the lesser-known, but prominent writer and film official Constantin Stoiciu, this essay assesses his contribution to the shared cinematic imaginary of the late ’60s and ’70s Romanian cinema and delineates the main strategies he resorted to in order to insert two of his thematic obsessions, class differentiation and class anxiety, into his narratives penned for the big screen."

scholarly journals That Old Devil Called ‘Statistics’: Statistics Anxiety in University Students and Related Factors

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melita Puklek Levpušček ◽  
Maja Cukon
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
University Students ◽  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Average Score ◽  
Statistics Anxiety ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Study Programme ◽  
Class Anxiety

The present study investigated relationships between statistics anxiety (SA), trait anxiety, attitudes towards mathematics and statistics, and academic achievement among university students who had at least one study course related to statistics in their study programme. Five hundred and twelve students from the University of Ljubljana completed the Statistics Anxiety Rating Scale (STARS), State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, and answered questions about their perceptions of mathematics and statistics. The results showed below-average mean scores on the STARS dimensions, except for the Test and Class Anxiety with the average score around the midpoint of the scale. Female students reported higher levels of SA than male students did. The highest levels of SA were reported by students who perceived mathematics and statistics as a threat. The subscales of the STARS correlated positively with students’ trait anxiety. Students who reported less enjoyment in mathematics in high school perceived statistics to be a less worthy subject and had a lower computation self-concept. Students who had better mathematics performance in high school and higher average study grades also reported a higher computation self-concept. In the present study, we translated the STARS questionnaire into Slovenian and confirmed the six-factor structure of the questionnaire. The results provide a basis for further research on statistics anxiety and further validation of the STARS questionnaire. The results can also aid statistics teachers in better understanding students’ worries, fears, and attitudes towards statistics and in learning about the factors that affect students’ statistics anxiety and their work in the course.

scholarly journals Development and Validation of a New Multidimensional Language Class Anxiety Scale

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
pp. 649-658
Author(s):  
Gulsah Kutuk ◽  
David W. Putwain ◽  
Linda Kaye ◽  
Bethan Garrett
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Preliminary Evidence ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Residual Variance ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽  
Language Class ◽  
Class Anxiety

This study reports on the development and assessment of a new 30-item Multidimensional Language Class Anxiety Scale which is designed to assess foreign language learners’ anxiety regarding four language skills (listening, reading, writing, and speaking) and testing. In Study 1, the initial items were piloted with 323 students studying English as a foreign language at three different universities in Turkey. This informed a revised version of the questionnaire which was subsequently administered to 701 students at three different Turkish universities. Confirmatory factor analyses revealed that a bifactor model with correlated residual variance yielded a better fit for the data in both studies than the other four models tested. The overall results provided preliminary evidence for the reliability and validity of the data collected using the new scale. Directions for future research and implications for foreign language teaching and learning are discussed.

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