Socialism in Bessie Head’s “The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses”: A Marxist Reading by F. Sandro Asshary

“…Adjusting to capitalist society, the working class is often unconsciously or consciously mistreated to be seen as equal to the upper class. Since socialism is perfectly captured in Bessie Head’s “The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses,” this research aims to analyze the solidarity of the Span One group portrayed in the short story by using Mason’s solidarity, Roskin’s social democracy theories, and Uwe’s qualitative descriptive method. …”
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« Ni bas-bleu, ni pot-au-feu » : la conception de « la » femme selon Augusta Moll-Weiss (France, tournant des XIXe-XXe siècles) by Sandrine Roll

“…The latter started housewifery lessons at the turn of the 19th century at a moment when public discourse among both working and upper-class reformers sang the praises of the housewife. …”
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Les configurations de l'espace économique et la crise politique en Belgique by Christian Vandermotten

“…The community ideology prevailing in Flanders was developed as a reaction to the secular crisis of the Flemish economy, from the mid-19th Century to the inter-war, and to the arrogance of the French-speaking national and Flemish upper class of that time. The economic crisis that affected Wallonia and many European early coal-mining and metallurgical areas after World War II generated in Flanders the feeling that Wallonia had become a burden for its own development, characterized in turn by strong manufacturing growth. …”
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Phronetic Planning’s Janus Face: Charting Elite Advantage in Tehran’s Land Use Decisions by Max Stephenson, Mohammadmehdi Panahi, Neda Moayerian

“…Nonetheless, during those years, its members disproportionately granted land use change permits to the Tehran Comprehensive Plan that principally benefited members of the city’s upper class. Our central finding underscores the Commission’s role in advancing elite rather than broader public interest needs. …”
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Voices in the Machine: Class, Subjectivity and Desire in Victorian Women’s Factory Poems by Fabienne Moine

“…We often fail to consider that not all factory poems spring from the minds of middle and upper-class reform-minded authors. The working-class poets produced a limited but significant number of industrial and largely autobiographical poems too. …”
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« Beautiful Idiots and Brilliant Lunatics » Social Comedy, Nostalgia and a World of Fantasy (Wilde and Hofmannsthal) by Anne-Isabelle François

“…The article focuses on the social comedies where a reception is being held, these passages offering a key to understanding not only the lasting popularity of the productions, but also the symbolic value and general ambivalence of Wilde’s theatrical picture of the Victorian upper class. The acts present an extremely brilliant, though exaggerated mirror world and act thus as critical comments upon the fabric of British society, a glowing Schein on the brink of disappearing forever. …”
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Behavioral Disorder amongst Adolescents Attending Secondary School in Southeast Nigeria by J. M. Chinawa, P. C. Manyike, H. A. Obu, O. I. Odetunde, E. C. Aniwada, I. K. Ndu, A. T. Chinawa

“…Majority of adolescents with behavioral disorder are from the upper class family. Conclusion. This study revealed that adolescents exhibit several forms of behavioral problems.…”
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The influence of COVID-19 on the practice of physical activity in the European Union countries by Diego Álvarez-Lourido, José Luis Paniza-Prados, Antonio Álvarez-Sousa

“…In contrast, people of higher socio-economic status, considered to be of upper class, living in contexts where there are opportunities for physical activity, and in countries with low levels of social inequality, are more likely/ to belong to the group of those who increased the frequency of practicing physical activity in free time/ to have increased the frequency of their leisure time physical activity. …”
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Être enfant à Sfax (Tunisie) by Fanny Vuaillat, Noa Schumacher, Sami Ben Fguira

“…On a daily basis, children from the middle and upper classes in the peri-urban aera use a small number of enclosed spaces, usually dedicated to a specific activity and always under the authority of adults. …”
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KING'S ENGLISH AND THE ARISTOCRATIC CODE OF COMMUNICATION IN MODERN BRITAIN by T. A. Ivushkina

“…Cultivated by the upper classes and the aristocracy, this code is based on the categories of words which originate ambiguity in speech or texts and raise the eternal question «What is meant by this or that? …”
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Les inégalités d’accès aux ressources urbaines dans les franges périphériques de Belo Horizonte (Brésil) : quelles évolutions ? by Eugênia Viana Cerqueira

“…The mobility behavior of the upper classes is shaped by their individual choices, whilst the poorest are still forced to develop strategies to access urban resources.…”
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Bouche en cœur, battement de cils et tête à l’envers : rencontres et flirts à Nouakchott (Mauritanie) by Céline Lesourd

“…The analysis of several mixed spaces that are available to the upper classes in the Mauritanian capital, Nouakchott, show that women can be demanding with men and inverse roles: they require presents, attention, patience; they enjoy fuelling male rivalry and one-upmanship. …”
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Percursos da cidade em João Antônio by Júlio Cezar Bastoni da Silva

“…The city in João Antônio’s writings seems to be composed by the particular language and focus of the narrator, who wants himself identified to the lower classes, emulating the talk of the excluded people by a linguistic treatment, with its syntactic, rhythmic and vocabulary implications, building a point of view apart from the representations of the upper classes. Thus, João Antônio tries to represent the city through the focus of those social classes, which results in the preference for unknown places, marginal from official images.…”
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Intrusion et exclusion dans les romans politiques de Trollope by Laurent Bury

“…The Prime Minister (1876) offers a perfect illustration of the traditional pattern Intrusion-Exclusion : a social climber tries to creep into the upper classes but his star soon pales, which eventually leads him to suicide. …”
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Water as a social border in Ancient Egypt by Heidi Köpp-Junk

“…The existence of bathrooms with water drainage as well as wells in the houses of the upper classes symbolizes a separation between these groups of people. …”
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Alliances bénies en Algérie : nouveaux liens maritaux en Islam by Abderrahmane Moussaoui

“…The practice of a new kind of marriage called zawâdj-al-misyâr has spread in Muslim countries, among urban middle and upper classes. In Algeria, as in many Sunni countries, this form of marriage, which can be translated as “passerby’s marriage” is seen as a way to relax marital rules and adapt them to the reality of everyday life. …”
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Le cinéma indonésien, miroir déformant d’une société en mutation by Jean-Baptiste Bing

“…Indonesian cinema, which is a major part of the cultural life of young urban people from the middle and upper-classes, is made by directors for whom this national market represents the main target. …”
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L’essor et le déclin de la stratégie économique keynésienne – structuraliste au Mexique by Julio López G.

“…He then considers the relationship between economics and politics during the “miracle” period as much as in the following years, arguing that fast and stable growth also served as material support for an alliance between the upper classes and the political bureaucracy. Thus, the demise of the previous economic model also eroded the material and ideological framework that made possible or eased the class alliance built during the “miracle” years.…”
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Faut-il renouveler le regard sur les franges périphériques des villes du Sud ? Le cas des périphéries brésiliennes by Eugênia Viana Cerqueira

“…This metropolis is an interesting and original field of study due to its rapid sprawl and the many transformations observed in its suburban areas in last two decades: from the expansion of the real estate market, the sprawl of amenities and services and the arrival of the middle and upper classes, the suburban areas of Belo Horizonte are undergoing an important process of diversification, mirroring many metropolitan areas in Brazil and other countries of the Global South.…”
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Miss-Taken Identities: The Comedy of Misrecognition in New Woman Short Stories by Margaret D. Stetz

“…Often, this misidentification takes a class-based turn, with men of the upper classes assuming that the girls they encounter in socially ambiguous spaces belong to a class lower than their own and are, therefore, undeserving of the usual forms of respectful courtesy, or are even appropriate targets for sexual predation. …”
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