L’instrumentalisation de l’espace by Gatien Elie, Elisabeth Foscolo

“…They put the accomodation problem on politics diary and they reminded the middle class people of their precarity by the sudden nearness of the otherness.…”
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Generational Shadows: Parties of Memory and Hope in El Salvador by Ellen Moodie

“…At its core are stories shared by a rising generation of young, middle-class activists with little or no direct memory of the 1980-1992 civil war — and their parents, who lived the war and celebrated the 1992 peace agreements. …”
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Evaluating eating patterns and health status of undergraduate students majoring in human nutrition, Lahore, Pakistan: a cross-sectional study by Saad Afzal, Ayesha Iftikhar, Mateen Ahmad, Zeeshan Ashraf, Waseem Khalid, Shinawar Waseem Ali, Maryam Illyas, Fareed Afzal, Muhammad Zubair Khalid, Tawfiq Alsulami, Emery Lenge Mukonzo

“…Results showed that 63% of participants from upper middle-class backgrounds were either obese or underweight, while 25% of those affected by malnutrition were from lower middle-class backgrounds. …”
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Filles et fils au prisme des journaux d’observation rédigés par leurs parents (Suisse romande, 1780-1820) by Sylvie Moret Petrini

“…Based on thirteen educational or observational diaries kept by middle-class parents from the French-speaking part of Switzerland between 1780 and 1820, this article analyses this writing practice and the way the writers speak about their children. …”
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Les supermarchés au Mexique et dans la Zone Métropolitaine de Mexico by Guénola Capron, Salomón González Arellano, Linda Moreno Sánchez

“…It seeks to understand how supermarkets, in a country like Mexico where they initially target mainly the middle class, reproduce or mitigate socio-spatial disparities. …”
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Migrations féminines et transformations de l’emploi domestique dans la Bolivie d’Evo Morales by Sophie Blanchard

“…In Spain, working class migrants and middle class migrants share similar experiences and work conditions. …”
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La reversión de la figura del inmigrante y del porteño en las últimas décadas del siglo XX by Marina Sikora

“…These types of theatre, popular in the early representation of the immigrant phenomenon, function as the metaphor of the rise of the middle class. As the above mentioned authors re-write the sainete, their goal is to represent the opposite effect of that in the 1920’s, their plays showing the decadence of the early social model.…”
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L’apport du jardinage urbain de Russie à la théorisation de l’agriculture urbaine by Louiza Boukharaeva, Marcel Marloie

“…It is a treatment of poverty by the generalization of an element of the lifestyle of the middle class.…”
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Alma-Tadema et le détournement de la culture savante by Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada

“…Alma-Tadema’s recreations of Antiquity were informed by his vast archaeological and literary knowledge of Roman and Greek culture, but at the same time, he dealt with themes that were easily readable by middle-class or popular publics. This paper aims at showing that there are different readings of his painting that inscribe him both in the “commodity culture” of the age—because of his interest for objects and archaeological artefacts that are reproduced time and again in his canvases—and in the Aesthetic Movement that posited the doctrine of art for art’s sake. …”
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STRATIFICATION OF MODERN RUSSIAN SOCIETY: METHODOLOGY, ANALYSIS AND TREND by A. Urunov

“…Unfortunately, the trend of increasing reduction of the middle class in Russia and exhaustion of its potential is observed.…”
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« Qu’aurais-je trouvé de plus chouette à Paris, Lyon ou Marseille ? » Socio-démo-géographie des Français·es de Bruxelles by Charlotte Casier, Jean-Michel Decroly

“…Unlike nationals of countries bordering Belgium, with whom a comparison is made, Franco-Brussels citizens are therefore more of a middle-class migration (Scott, 2006) than a transnational migrant elite.…”
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To Speed Our Boys Home... Produce and Conserve. Share and Play Square. Home Front Propaganda and Food during World War II: Rewriting Gender? by Hélène Le Dantec-Lowry

“…This construction had two concomitant consequences: first, the focus on 1950s white suburban housewives in middle-class suburbs during the Cold war, and second, the creation of female solidarity, which, in part, led to feminist demands in the 1960s.…”
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De quels ingénieurs parle-t-on ? Situation et trajectoires des ingénieurs des grandes écoles. Le cas du Maroc by Pierre Vermeren

“…Second-rate higher education establishments attended by middle class students have been an ideal breeding ground for Islamic fundamentalism. …”
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Les hétérosexuel·les et leurs ami·es gai·es : enquête sur la sociabilité gay-friendly dans les quartiers gentrifiés by Sylvie Tissot

“…Based on fieldwork in New York and Paris, it argues that these selective and controlled links provide social and moral valorization to upper-middle-class heterosexuals living in gentrified neighborhoods. …”
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The covid-19 pandemic in vulnerable communities: the responses of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas by Dalia Maimon Schiray

“…We show that prevention, following WHO guidelines, is more easily adopted by the middle class. In low-income groups, housing conditions, lack of sanitation and informality limit the effectiveness of prevention. …”
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Les images d’enfermement dans John Marchmont’s Legacy de Mary Elizabeth Braddon by Marion Charret-Del Bove

“…Indeed this text allows Miss Braddon to throw light on the position of middle-class Victorian women in a patriarchal and particularly oppressive world. …”
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La réélection de Lula et la Gauche au Brésil by Adilar Cigolini, Francisco Mendonça, Irani dos Santos

“…In its first mandate, it promoted the action of the State by founding the participative democracy on the topics of health, education, installation, the environment or the human rights, which the middle class also appreciated. Thanks to his charismatic personality and his modest origin, the people feel represented and is identified with him. …”
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L’enseignement professionnel féminin à l’époque de la modernisation espagnole (1875-1930) by Maria Luisa Rico Gómez

“…In this context, the woman of the middle class becomes a student of the schools of arts and trades and the business schools because she was sure that a certificate diploma would modify the political and socio-economic relations imposed by the traditional speech of the woman.…”
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Normative talk about talk in child-caregiver interaction in Mexican families by Rojas-Nieto Cecilia

“…Data collected from spontaneous conversations between young children and their caregivers in middle-class urban families in the Mexican highlands show that the motives for normative control in this community are very diverse. …”
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L’Enseignement supérieur britannique en 2002 : incertaine démocratisation by Jean-Noël Evanno

“…Therefore, even as most potential recruits from the middle-class are entering higher education establishments, the less favoured classes are still reluctant to take the plunge—even though they have been encouraged for some years now to participate in larger numbers. …”
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