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Upper Middle Class Social Reproduction Wealth, Schooling, and Residential Choice in Chile / by Méndez, María Luisa, Gayo, Modesto

Table of Contents: “…Neither Conservatives nor Progressives: Fragmentation in the Cultural Repertoires of the Upper Middle Class -- 6. Inheritors, Achievers, and Incomers: Wrapping up a Multidimensional Approach to Social Reproduction. .…”
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Does the black middle class exist and are we members? : reflections from a research team / by Khunou, Grace, Marsh, Kris, Chauke, Polite, Plank, Lesego, Igbanoi, Leo, Kgosiemang, Mabone

Table of Contents: “…Prelims -- Chapter 1: Who is The Black Middle Class in History and Theory? -- Chapter 2: The Black Middle Class: A Conceptual Moving Target? …”
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Prekarya yeni tehlikeli sınıf / by Standing, Guy

Subjects: “…Economy 15856 Models Proletariat Middle class…”
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Kamusallığın yapısal dönüşümü / by Habermas, Jürgen

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Political power and social theory.

Table of Contents: “…/ Grzegorz Ekiert -- The spatial dynamics of middle-class formation in post-apartheid South Africa : enclavization and fragmentation in Johannesburg / Amy Kracker Selzer, Patrick Heller -- The contested spaces of Chile's middle classes / Joel Stillerman -- The middle class in India : a social formation or political actor? …”
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Urbanization and Its Impact in Contemporary China

Table of Contents: “…Urbanization and Stage of New Growth of China -- General State of Urbanization and People's Livelihood -- Consumption State and Consuming Characters of Urban and Rural Residents -- Labor Market Segmentation in Process of Urbanization -- Urbanization and Social Integration of Migrant Workers -- Increase of Education Chance and Urban Education Inequality -- Urbanization and Growth of Middle Class -- Discovery from Research and Related Suggestions.…”
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Investigating Developmentalism Notions of Development in the Social Sphere /

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Introduction: Developmentalism: On a Trope of (Dis)Enchantment -- Part One: Discontentment and Disenchantment -- Chapter 2: The Danger of Development Today: An Inevitable Polemic -- Chapter 3: The Enchantment of Urbanization: Closer Look at Market's Narrative in Indian Cities -- Part Two: Dramatics and Enchantment -- Chapter 4: The Art of Showing: Imagining Development in Indian Mediascape -- Chapter 5: Crafting Development and Developing Craft: An On-going Dialogue -- Chapter 6: Documentaries and the Development Project: Filmmaking as a Discursive Practice -- Chapter 7: "Tayyari Jeet Ki": The Production of Childhood as a Cultural Trope of Developmentalism -- Part Three: Details of Discontents -- Chapter 8: Development, Marginality, and 'Contested Space' in th eCoastal Kerala, South India -- Chapter 9: Resurgence of Community in the Midst of Despair: Development's Changing Course in Northeast India -- Chapter 10: (Re)producing Middle Class" On Development as Middle Classes Mission -- Chapter 11: Frictions in Resistance: Imagining Post-neoliberal Developmental Possibilities.…”
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Rent-Seekers, Profits, Wages and Inequality The Top 20% / by Mihályi, Péter, Szelényi, Iván

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2: Rent in Classical Economic, Social and Political Theory -- Chapter 3: Thirteen Types of Rent in the Globalized World -- Chapter 4: Class Reproduction of the Upper Middle Class (Top 20%) -- Chapter 5: Stages of Rent-Seeking Under Post-Communism -- Chapter 6: Rent-Securing by the Nation-States and Rent Destruction by Globalization -- Chapter 7: Theoretical and Policy Conclusions.…”
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Political power and social theory

Table of Contents: “…Free riding on revolution : conservatism and social change / Robin Archer -- Parties and the articulation of neoliberalism : from "the emergency" to reforms in India, 1975-1991 / Manali Desai -- "A new health order as part of the new social order" : the strategic response of the WHO to its member states / Nitsan Chorev -- The reconfiguration of the Palestinian national question : the indirect rule route and the civil society route / Silvia Pasquetti -- Transforming citizenship : the subjective consequences of local political mobilization / Rachel Meyer -- Political fields and religious movements : the exclusion of the Ahmadiyya community in Pakistan / Sadia Saeed -- Racialized class formation : blacks in the professional middle class in the post-civil rights era / Eric S. Brown -- Varieties of what? …”
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Inequality, Socio-cultural Differentiation and Social Structures in Africa Beyond Class / by Neubert, Dieter

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The Middle Class Debate and Its Limits -- 2. Poverty and Inequality in Development Policy: Concepts of Poverty, Vulnerability and Livelihood -- 3. …”
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Rethinking class and social difference /

Table of Contents: “…Class, Culture, and the Rise of the Nationalist Right -- The Great Equalizer Reproduces Inequality: How the Digital Divide Is a Class Power Divide -- Unraveling the Middle Classes in Postrevolutionary Iran -- Just Work: Sex Work at the Intersections -- Applying the Black Radical Tradition: Class, Race, and a New Foundation for Studies of Development -- Of Home and Whom: Embeddedness of Law in the Regulation of Difference -- Index.…”
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Hong Kong Architecture 1945-2015 From Colonial to Global / by Xue, Charlie Q. L.

Table of Contents: “…Part I Government-led modernity -- Chapter 1: Reconstruction and resettlement after the War -- Chapter 2: Modernism coming to town - government low-cost housing and public buildings -- Chapter 3: Design forces and their strategies -- Chapter 4: Government control, building regulations and their implications -- Part II Private forces command -- Chapter 5: Serving the middle class - private housing and shopping mall -- Chapter 6: Rail village and mega-structure. - Chapter 7: Commercial to Global -- Chapter 8: "Being Chinese in architecture" - growth of local architects -- Part III Backward and forward vision -- Chapter 9: Finding the roots and preserving our well-being -- Chapter 10: Pursuing excellence - towards a civic architecture.…”
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Youth, Inequality and Social Change in the Global South

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Youth in the Global South: Transitions, Diversity & Inequality -- Chapter 2: Beyond the Nizam: Youth political practices in Egypt and Tunisia after the 2011 uprisings -- Chapter 3: Place, mobility and youth transitions in Indonesia -- Chapter 4: Youth, violence and subjectivities: art as resource and bond -- Chapter 5: Youth engagement In Jerusalem: Between the Palestinian youth organizations development strategies and the Israeli colonial policies -- Chapter 6: Young people's constitutional submissions in Fiji: opportunities and challenges -- Chapter 7: Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty: Exploring Subjective Well-Being, Hurdles, Risks, Shocks, and Resilience Amongst Youth in India -- Chapter 8: Social Class Reproduction amongst upper middle class in Mexico -- Chapter 9: Femininity in Everyday Life: Experiences of Malay and Indian Women in Malaysia.…”
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Media and power in international contexts : perspectives on agency and identity /

Table of Contents: “…Prelims -- Media and power in international contexts: perspectives on agency and identity -- Section I Media, power, and agency -- Chapter 1 Power and representation: activist standing in broadcast news, 19702012 -- Chapter 2 Learning from a "teachable moment": the Henry Louis Gates arrest as media spectacle and theorizing colorblind racism -- Chapter 3 Economically challenged but academically focused: the low-income Chinese immigrant families' acculturation, parental involvement, and parental mediation -- Chapter 4 The globalization of Facebook: Facebook's penetration in developed and developing countries -- Section II Media, power, and identity -- Chapter 5 Hybridizing national identity: reflections on the media consumption of middle-class catholic women in urban India -- Chapter 6 Reading a complex Latina stereotype: an analysis of Modern Family's Gloria Pritchett, intersectionality, and audiences -- Chapter 7 Manifestations and contestations of hegemony in video gaming by immigrant youth in Norway -- Index.…”
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Italians and Food

Table of Contents: “…Good Food and Nice People: Hospitality and the Construction of Food Quality among the Italian Middle Classes; Roberta Sassatelli and Federica Davolio -- 7. …”
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The politicization of Mumsnet / by Pedersen, Sarah

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The Future of Democracy by Glassman, Ronald M.

Table of Contents: “…The Hope for Democracy in the Near Future: Global Capitalism, Global Science, and the Global New Middle Class -- Chapter 14. High Technology, Mass Media as Strengthening Democracy: Immediacy and Community in the Blogosphere - Extremism Plus Increased Citizens Involvement -- Chapter 15. …”
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Euro-Mediterranean relations after the Arab spring persistence in times of change /

Table of Contents: “…: renegotiating the authoritarian social contract in Egypt / Cilja Harders -- Blocked middle classes as an engine of change in the Arab world? …”
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Globalization, changing demographics, and educational challenges in East Asia

Table of Contents: “…The educational progress of mainland Chinese immigrant students in Hong Kong / Suet-ling Pong and Wing Kwong Tsang ; Postsecondary educational expansion and social integration in Hong Kong / David Post ; 'Downed' and stuck in Singapore: lower/middle class South Korean wild geese (kirogi) children in Singapore / Jeehun Kim.…”
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Beauty and the Norm Debating Standardization in Bodily Appearance /

Table of Contents: “…Stephan Bibrowski, The "Lion Man," And The Changing Face Of Normative Middle-Class Masculinity In Bohemia Around 1900 -- 3. …”
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