Class, Status and Crisis: Upper-Class Protestants and the Founding of the United Church of Canada

1994 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 63-84
Author(s):  
Douglas F. Campbell
Keyword(s):  
United Church Of Canada ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Class Status

America’s Signal Crisis in Salman Rushdie’s Fury

2017 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 484-500 ◽  
Author(s):  
Treasa De Loughry
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Roman Empire ◽  
Financial Markets ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
American Hegemony ◽  
Class Status

This article examines how Salman Rushdie’s Fury (2001) registers a signal crisis of American hegemony through its hyperreal production of an aesthetics of excess, constituted by fragmented subjectivities, a frenetic narrative form, references to the decaying years of the Roman Empire, and irruptions of violence against women. The text’s libidinal investment of personal anguish with public discontent, or a psychopathological fury, is read through Fredric Jameson’s account of third-world allegory as a symptom of the novel’s registration of America’s hegemonic decline. The scalping of several upper-class young women in New York City by their financier boyfriends is thus further examined as an aspect of the text’s aesthetics of excess and use of allegory, which frames the violent interrelation between public discontent and private hubris. The murdered women are read as symbols of American hegemony and class under threat by turbulent financial markets, and hoarding their scalps is represented as a crude and violent attempt by their boyfriends to halt the dwindling value of America’s cultural capital and financial markets. The destabilization of class structures due to turbulent financial markets breeds a semantic confusion between real and symbolic signifiers of class status, a process facilitated by the narrator’s comparison of these women to prototypically American symbols, such as “Oscar-Barbie” statuettes and dolls. Fury’s mapping of Solanka’s cultural products, dolls and masks, from New York to the peripheral nation of Lilliput-Blefescu further actualizes the flow of American cultural and economic power to peripheral regions. This, alongside the text’s problematic characterization of gender and race, is read as evidence of Rushdie as a writer in terminal decline.

“You’re sitting on a hot soccer field drinking Gatorade…I’m sitting in a yacht club just enjoying the view, enjoying the drinks”: Parental reproduction of social class through school sport sailing

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 987-1005
Author(s):  
Anne Schmitt ◽  
Matthew Atencio ◽  
Gaëlle Sempé
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Dominant Class ◽  
School Sport ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Tactical Decision ◽  
Class Status ◽  
Teachers And Parents

This paper examines the utilisation of light sailing within school sport programmes in Western France and California. Sailing has been identified as a key activity for upper class participation in both France and the USA because it heavily involves intellectual skills, including preparation, tactical decision making, leadership and problem solving. Following on from this, we develop the social class concepts of Pierre Bourdieu (1979) to demonstrate how cultural and economic capitals are sought after and reproduced in comparative school sailing environments to maintain upper class social values and positions. We highlight interview commentary and field observations from a 1.5-year comparative ethnographic study of youth sailors and supporting adults, including coaches, teachers and parents. Our findings indicate that Western French and Californian upper class student sailors and their adult supporters are differentiated from each other in terms of how they prioritise either economic or cultural capital acquisition. This finding aligns with Bourdieusian conceptual distinctions of culturally dominant class and economically dominant class values and membership. Upper class status reinforcement and capital reproduction in these divergent ways reflects distinctive national cultures as well as social and economic structures underpinning youth/school sport and educational participation.

scholarly journals Storage Projects in Nepal’s Electricity Development Decade 2016/2026 For Whom Nepal’s Storage Projects Toll?

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 6-10
Author(s):  
Santa Bahadur Pun
Keyword(s):  
Prime Minister ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Master Plan ◽  
Environmental Costs ◽  
Ganges Basin ◽  
Development Decade ◽  
Class Status ◽  
The Government ◽  
Water Strategy ◽  
The Ganges

The Nepal government’s Electricity Development Decade 2016/2026 to develop 10,000 MW in 10 years has 11 storage projects totaling over 5,000 MW. Nine of these eleven projects would store 11 billion cubic meters of freshwater submerging vast tracts of fertile valleys, villages, farms and forests in Nepal. Brushing aside these social and environmental costs lightly, the government has launched the holy ‘jihad/crusade’ to develop hydroelectricity. Nepal’s policy framers of 10,000 MW in 10 years crusade have totally failed to see the larger picture in the Ganges basin. This failure to see the larger Ganges picture is, to a large extent, attributed to Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal’s 2009 decision to unbundle Water Resources Ministry into Energy and Irrigation. Electricity attained the upper class status with Water downgraded to Dalit class!India’s greatest burning problem in the Ganges basin, that supports nearly fifty per cent of her 1,200 million people, is WATER. India, therefore, is in desperate need of storages in Nepal to realize her master plan, the Interlinking of Rivers. With Nepal in desperate pursuit of hydroelectricity, India sees this as an opportune moment to avail GRATIS stored WATER through Nepal’s default. According to Bhim Subba, a Bhutanese of Nepalese origin, this is the fundamental flaw in all past Indo-Nepal deals. Subba believes India must concede that success of her Ganges water strategy hinges entirely on Nepal. He argues that water stored in Nepal has monetary value and this must be factored in all storage projects. Such a policy would be mutually beneficial for both the countries. Unfortunately, this would be a bitter pill to swallow for our policy framers of 10,000 MW in 10 years crusade. This article dwells on these issues. HYDRO Nepal JournalJournal of Water Energy and EnvironmentIssue: 20Page: 6-10

scholarly journals PERGESERAN IDENTITAS BUDAYA DALAM NASKAH LAKON PUTU WIJAYA BILA MALAM BERTAMBAH MALAM: KAJIAN POSTMODERNISME

ALAYASASTRA ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Kahar Prihantono
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Impression Formation ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Biological Father ◽  
Class Status ◽  
Identity Shifts

This study attempted to reveal cultural identity shifts in the Putu Wijaya’s play script Bila Malam Bertambah Malam (BMBM) observed from Jean Francois Lyotard’s postmodernism point of view. This study employed sociology in literature approach to analyze the cultural identity of the characters in the BMBM play script, next it would be connected with any symptoms of the Jean Francis Lyotard postmodernism. The results of the study proved that there were cultural identity shifts in the BMBM play script in term of postmodernism point of views including the liberation, reformation, and identity deception and falsify (as an impression formation). The character of Gusti Biang possessed arrogant characteristics to her lowest class assistant (Wayan) in fact the assistant was the biological father of her son. She despised his assistants (Wayan and Nyoman), and opposed to the his son’s (Ngurah) romance with Nyoman. The identity deception as the impression formation appeared in Gusti Biang’s arrogant attitude, she kept glorifying her upper class status (satria) and insulting lowest class status (sudra) although Wayan was the person she loved after the death of her impotent husband. The symptoms of liberation and reformation in term of social class was captured in loyal servant character, Wayan. He devoted himself to his love, Gusti Biang, although the old tradition prohibited him to marry Gusti Biang. Later, both Ngurah and Nyoman dared themselves to break the tradition of inter-class romance.Keywords: cultural identity; social class; postmodernism; sociology in literature; interclass romance;

First Generation Iranian Immigrants and the Question of Cultural Identity: The Case of Iowa

1997 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 612-627 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad A. Chaichian
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
First Generation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Iranian Immigrants ◽  
Subtle Discrimination ◽  
Class Status ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Determining Factor ◽  
Average Educational Level

Based on survey research and in-depth interviews, this article concerns first generation Iranian immigrants in Iowa and focuses on the extent of their integration into the host society's culture. The findings indicate that while the majority of respondents are fully bilingual and receptive of the host society's culture, they are confident enough to bring up their children based on Iranian cultural values. Yet the longer they stay in the United States, the more isolated they become and the lonelier they feel. There are two plausible explanations: first, their middle-class to upper-class status and above-average educational level is a determining factor in reinforcing Iranian ethnic pride; second, despite their educational and professional successes, Iranian immigrants’ failure to blend into the society at large signals a more serious problem of prejudice and subtle discrimination against them.

scholarly journals HIPERREALITAS DALAM SOCIAL MEDIA (STUDI KASUS: MAKAN CANTIK DI SENOPATI PADA MASYARAKAT PERKOTAAN)

INFORMASI ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 87
Author(s):  
Herlinda Fitria
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Young People ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Class Society ◽  
Class Status

AbstractThis study reviews the phenomenon of eating in restaurants that recently came out as a new lifestyle known as “makan cantik” (aesthetic eating). This lifestyle is currently trending among young people, especially those in the urban areas such as Jakarta. This study uses qualitative methods to observe and describe makan cantik as a hyperreality on social media, constructed through simulation. Makan cantik is done with an intention of broadcasting the activity through social media. Makan cantik is a simulation that is intentionally constructed to present certain image, such that represents the upper class society. Beneath what’s been presented in social media, there is a contrasting condition of real life. Therefore, it can be said that there is no clarity of class status on social media, for social media nowadays is no longer presenting the reality, but instead the hyperreality.AbstrakPenelitian ini akan mengkaji mengenai fenomena makan di restoran yang saat ini telah menjadi sebuah gaya hidup baru disebut sebagai makan cantik. Kegiatan tersebut sedang tren dilakukan anak muda khususnya yang tinggal di perkotaan seperti Jakarta. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif untuk melihat dan menggambarkan makan cantik sebagai sebuah hiperealitas pada social media yang dibentuk melalui simulasi.Makan cantik dilakukan dalam rangka untuk memberitahukan kegiatannya kepada orang melalui social media. Makan cantik merupakan simulasi yang sengaja dibentuk untuk menampilkan image tertentu, karena hal tersebut dianggap dapat merepresentasikan masyarakat kelas atas. Di balik makan cantik yang di unggah di social media, ternyata hal tersebut berlainan dengan kondisi yang nyata. Sehingga dapat dikatakan bahwa telah terjadi pengaburan kelas dimana tidak adanya kejelasan dari status kelas yang dimunculkan di social media. Social media saat ini tidak lagi menampilkan realitas yang sebenarnya, namun menampilkan hiperrealitas.

Homelessness: Work Hope, Locus of Control, and Class Status Identity

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimberly M. Jorgensen ◽  
Chasidy I. Faith ◽  
Anthony Athmann ◽  
Thomas R. Roskos
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Class Status

The Right to Dream: Gender, Modernity, and the Problem of Class in Kate O'Brien's Bourgeois Bildungsromane

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 276-289
Author(s):  
Naoise Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Female Identity ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Class Status ◽  
The Right ◽  
Aristocratic Culture ◽  
Modern Form

Feminist critics have celebrated Kate O'Brien's pioneering approach to gender and sexuality, yet there has been little exploration of her innovations of the coming-of-age narrative. Creating a modern Irish reworking of the Bildungsroman, O'Brien's heroines represent an idealized model of female identity-formation which stands in sharp contrast to the nationalist state's vision of Irish womanhood. Using Franco Moretti's theory of the Bildungsroman, a framing of the genre as a thoroughly ‘modern’ form of the novel, this article applies a critical Marxist lens to O'Brien's output. This reading brings to light the ways in which the limitations of the Bildungsroman work to constrain O'Brien's subversive politics. Their middle-class status remains an integral part of the identity of her heroines, informing the forms of liberation they seek. Fundamentally, O'Brien's idealization of aristocratic culture, elitist exceptionalism and ‘detachment of spirit’ restricts the emancipatory potential of her vision of Irish womanhood.

Manic Reparation

2010 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-12
Author(s):  
Barbara Greenberg
Keyword(s):  
First Nations ◽  
School System ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
United Church Of Canada ◽  
Residential School ◽  
Manic Reparation ◽  
Past Injustices

The Canadian public has heard many apologies from various governments and church institutions over the last 20 years. In June 2008 Prime Minister Stephen Harper apologized to First Nations for the federal government’s role in the residential school system. First Nations have also received apologies from the United Church of Canada (UCC) for its participation in these schools. Much of the work being done on the process of apology assesses the apology in order to judge if it is convincing and worthwhile.My work asks the question: are apologies effective in their attempt to make amends for past injustices, or are they examples of what Klein calls “manic reparation”?

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