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social class
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social class,
a grouping of people with similar values, interests, income, education, and occupations.


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95 Hardcover Western literature series PS1688 It was because of own class background that Foote (1847-1938) was able to play a role in both validating and questioning social hierarchies in the eastern and western US, argues Smith (humanities and communication, Colorado Mountain College, Glenwood Springs), but also because of the changing nature of publishing in particular, capitalism in general, transportation, and class formation in the late 19th-century.
The Staying On report, which includes a survey of more than 1,000 youngsters aged 14-18, reveals that 46 per cent of girls from a working class background have a profound fear of failure, which is seriously affecting their chances at school and work, compared to just 28 per cent of boys from middle class backgrounds.
Plenty of other kids who would be seen as coming from working class backgrounds had parents who scrimped, saved and got grants they were entitled to in order to give their kids what they didn't have.
 
 
 
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