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social class, a grouping of people with similar values, interests, income, education, and occupations. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Erdmans' insistence that "their class background shaped their choices and their dispositions" (p. Ryan, an urban planning graduate student from a working-class background, expressed this sentiment in a letter supporting my tenure application: "Urban planning students are likely to come from a middle or upper middle class background and when they enter the professional field they are likely to experience pressures to work to the benefit of this same community. The general outline will be familiar to those who have read earlier works in the genre: the author is a scion of the educated and privileged classes and a good student, whose progress is temporarily halted when he is ostracized because of his perceived bad class background. |
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