Category: Middle Class
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Motivation and Consequences of the Middle Class in Rural Areas
Motivation and Consequences of the Middle Class in Rural Areas Counter-urbanisation is the process by which the population of a country becomes less centralised in large urban areas and people begin to sprawl out towards urban areas (Cloke, 1985). In Britain it is often associated with the migration of the middle-class from cities towards smaller…
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The Advantage of The Middle Class in Education
The Advantage of The Middle Class in Education Meritocracy is part of a neoliberal ideology that has been made into an educational policy called marketisation and commodification. It is supposed to be a social system which gives people status or rewards because of what they achieve, rather than because of cultural and economic capital. This…
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Problems Faced By an Indian Middle Class Family
Problems Faced By an Indian Middle Class Family Before understanding the problems of an Indian middle-class family we should first understand what is a middle-class family. A middle-class family is a social group that consists of ordinary people who usually have good jobs and are neither rich nor very poor. Monetary Problem: This is one…
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Indias Middle Classes in Contemporary India: Analytical Essay
Indias Middle Classes in Contemporary India: Analytical Essay Henrike Donners book Domestic Goddesses: Maternity, Globalization and Middle-class Identity in Contemporary India published as a series of articles, is an ethnographic endeavor into the Calcutta of the 1990s. With the data she collects through extensive fieldwork, she examines the lives of its middle-class women, and how…
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Analysis of Reform Process’s Cost and Its Impact on the Middle Class in Egypt under the Rule of President El-Sisi
Analysis of Reform Process’s Cost and Its Impact on the Middle Class in Egypt under the Rule of President El-Sisi Chapter One. Introduction Starting from 2015 the Egyptian government under the rule of President Abdel Fattah El Sisi started to develop new economic policies and reforms and since November 2016 it started to accelerate the…
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Uncertainty of the New Middle Classes in Russia: Analytical Essay
Uncertainty of the New Middle Classes in Russia: Analytical Essay The article focuses on the new middle classes and their consumption practices in the wake of the policies of consumption recently introduced by the Russian state (the embargo on food imports and the strategy of import substitution), and on the background of the economic crisis.…
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An Understanding of the New Middle Classes in India: A Social-Cultural Perspective
An Understanding of the New Middle Classes in India: A Social-Cultural Perspective Abstract: One of the most distinguishing features of contemporary India is the emergence and rise of the new middle class/es (hereafter NMC). After the 1990s liberalization, the NMC became the focus of attention due to its socio-economic mobility, socio-cultural and political influence, and…