Contribution of geotagged Twitter data in the study of a social group’s activity space by Alexandre Cebeillac, Yves-Marie Rault

“…Using a sample of luxury shoppers, we analyzed the daily activity and mobility patterns of the upper middle class in Delhi, India. We intersected these data with the results of an ethnographic study carried out in two luxury shopping places in Delhi and found that the lower middle class was overrepresented in the Twitter sample. …”
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Peurs et aspiration à l’émigration à Miami et à Barcelone des Argentins de la classe moyenne (1999-2003) by Cécile Vermot

“…Taking account of fear from a sociological point of view contributes to the intelligibility of the migratory process of these middle class Argentines. Indeed, these fears are linked to representations specific to this part of the middle class according to the gender of the individuals and during this socio-historical period.…”
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Narratives of Social Mobility in the Post-Industrial Working Class and the Use of Credit in Chilean Households by Alejandro Marambio-Tapia

“…Specifically, it addresses the process of credit expansion by department stores and how it relates to lower-income families, i.e. the post-industrial working class, who tend to both offer and consume credit products; the lower-middle class; and low-skilled entrepreneurs. Credit has transcended the boundaries of economics. …”
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A Politics of Working-Class Culture and the Culture of Working-Class Politics: The Aesthetics and Activism of Amber Film and Photography Collective and the Berwick Street Film Coll... by Jessica Williams Boyall

“…This paper examines how Amber Film and Photography Collective’s working-class affiliations and Berwick Street Film Collective’s middle-class makeup shaped their divergent approaches to depicting ‘working-class issues’ by drawing on the films of both collectives, alongside archival materials and oral testimonies. …”
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La Westminster Review comme outil de transmission et de démocratisation de culture savante, 1824-1857 by Odile Boucher-Rivalain

“…Founded by Jeremy Bentham, it was meant to contribute to the transmission of culture among the middle class, including the lower middle-class. From 1836 until 1840, under the influence of the younger generation of Philosophic Radicals, with John Stuart Mill at their head, its literary influence rose sharply and with the merger of the London Review with the Westminster Review, a new period of its history began. …”
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Voices in the Machine: Class, Subjectivity and Desire in Victorian Women’s Factory Poems by Fabienne Moine

“…The first objective of this paper is to present the voices of the upper and middle-class women poets, who show sympathy for the labourers as they try to advance the cause of the female workers. …”
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The Working Class Culture in Bursa by Şenol Baştürk, Kemal Temel

“…The steady increase in the number of wage earners in Turkey during the last 20 years has brought social expansion of middle-class and working-class groups to the agenda. …”
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The Focus of Feminism: Challenging the Myths about the U.S. Women’s Movement by Cynthia Fuchs Epstein

“…This paper argues that the « second stage » of the woman’s movement in the United States has benefited working class and minority women as well as white women of the middle class from the time of its founding in 1966. By giving examples of the early agenda of the National Organization for Women it shows how it employed Civil Rights legislation to make employment practices more democratic throughout the class structure.…”
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Acute Rheumatic Fever: Findings of a Hospital-Based Study and an Overview of Reported Outbreaks by Upton D Allen, Michael Braudo, Stanley E Read

“…In three, the majority of children were white and from middle class suburban/rural communities in different geographic locations. …”
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Appartenance corporative et apprentissage politique : l’exemple des bourgeois parisiens de l’Ancien Régime à la Révolution by Laurence Croq

“…How did the Parisian middle-class become revolutionary? Which community experiences did they share before becoming political actors in a context very different from the Old Regime?…”
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Satire politique et sociale dans les opérettes de Gilbert et Sullivan by Anita Cornic

“…Although Gilbert and Sullivan’s Operas were first and foremost light, humorous works devised to entertain their mostly middle-class audience, they are characterised by a certain amount of political and social satire, as this paper aims to show through telling examples. …”
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Mobilidade precária em Terra estrangeira e em Estive em Lisboa e lembrei de você by Marco Antonio Rodrigues

“…The article investigates the representation of the migration of lower middle-class Brazilians to Portugual in the movie Terra estrangeira (1995), by Walter Salles, and the novel Estive em Lisboa e lembrei de você (2009), by Luiz Rufatto, from topics such as mobility, identity, deterritorialization and rooting. …”
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La peur du prolétaire et les paradoxes du socialisme shavien dans Widowers’ Houses by Stéphane Guy

“…As a socialist reformer and critic of revolutionary Marxism, the Fabian Bernard Shaw was intent on entrusting the middle-class bourgeoisie with the march to collectivism. …”
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Katharine Hepburn en reine de cœur : Mary of Scotland (John Ford, 1936) by Jules Sandeau

“…Ford’s biopic uses the historical figure of Mary Stuart to try and resolve the contradictions between Hepburn’s gender and class identity in a socio-historical context marked by a reaffirmed patriarchal order building on middle-class values.…”
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La primera gran huelga de los constructores de calzado de Barcelona en 1903 by Joël Delhom

“…The daily analysis of the Barcelona shoemakers’ momentous strike in June and July 1903, based on reports from middle-class and labour newspapers, highlights on the one hand the tactical divergences between activists with differing ideological orientations and on the other hand the divisions inside the sociedad de resistencia (union) that launched the strike, divisions which are related to the evolution of the shoe industry. …”
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The Resurgence of Ideology in Bernard Shaw’s Mrs Warren’s Profession (1893) by Stéphane Guy

“…The socialist playwright and theorist seeks to lay the blame on the capitalist system and on a middle-class public all too eager to ascribe prostitution to merely individual villainy. …”
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L’Ayurveda by Lucie Dejouhanet

“…Scientific validation methods and modernisation of its production made it a competitive medicine, challenging urban middle-class and foreign markets. Globalised Indian Ayurveda medicine sells « tradition » in order to conquer new markets.…”
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Les diplômés scientifiques tunisiens : la « voie moyenne » des études à l'étranger by Vincent Geisser

“…In spite of the devalorization of the statute of Tunisian scientists (scholars, researchers), these specializations continue to enjoy a certain prestige, in particular, within the higher middle class. On the basis of school representations prior to current neo-liberal orientations, graduates in science from abroad persist in conveying a form of scientistic ideal - expressed in an academic mode - which results, in particular, in a search for public employment.…”
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Louisa May Alcott’s Changing Views on Women, Work, and Marriage in Work by Jelena Šesnić

“…The novel proposes a new direction by placing women squarely in the public sphere of labor and social relations, even though that move is qualified by normative and sentimentalist constraints for middle-class characters. Still, Alcott ably marshals reformist and Transcendentalist ideas to prove that the feminine Bildung requires self-growth, education, work and a variety of social and affective relationships.…”
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Embodying Love in the Inner City : Undoing Injustice through Intentional Neighboring by Katherine Hankins, Andy Walter, Traci Dahl

“…In many American cities, middle-class, faith-motivated individuals and families are moving into poor, inner-city neighborhoods to live out their vision of social justice in the city by becoming “intentional neighbors.” …”
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