Sentences with phrase «american upper middle class»

In an opinion piece for the New York Times, Richard Reeves gives an overview of the argument of his new book on the American upper middle class and how its members understand their own position.

He loses his place in American upper middle class corporate hierarchy - you know the nice car, the nice house — and a sense of himself as somebody important.

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In an analysis of the changing shape of the American middle class, Pew Research Center divided the population into three groups: Lower - income Americans made less than 2/3 of the median household income, middle - income households had incomes between 2/3 and 200 % of the median, and upper - income households had income more than twice the median income.

But 4.8 percent of Americans would see taxes go up, with hikes concentrated in the upper middle class and among the very rich.

It is not uncommon for middle - and upper - class Americans to seek out diverse neighborhoods and to worry aloud that their children are not encountering enough people from other races.

The disorder also seems to afflict white middle and upper - middle class boys more than other ethnic groups, such as Asian - Americans.

There is this tendency within certain sectors of Christianity to assume that if our theology «works» for relatively privileged (often for white, upper - middle - class American men), then it should work well enough for everyone else, and everyone else should conform to it.

This paradox makes sense in light of the patterns of middle - and upper - class American life.

The 1960s ushered in many changes, one of which was the end of the broad social consensus, call it bourgeois morality, that held sway among white Americans of all classes, upper, lower, and middle.

Through movies, magazines and advertising the upper middle class has become «our reference point for what the American good life is supposed to look like and contain.»

I believe that when people espouse the values of a mother or wife exclusively being a homemaker, they are longing for a perceived simpler and easier time as opposed to truth, elevating a nostalgic look at motherhood from the standpoint of the post-war American dream of the white, upper - middle - class rather than Scripture.

Such awareness will include a prophetic criticism of American feminism when it is too narrow in scope, when it demands that the power of determining and directing social goals and structures be shared with middle - and upper - class American women while other women and groups are still excluded from that realization.

In most instances he was identified with the middle or upper classes in American society.

Creighton, like nearly all American Catholic institutions, is run by upper - middle - class Americans.

Middle or upper class Americans who feel depressed can be doubly assaulted, first by their emotional condition and second by their knowledge that, compared to those in the developing world, they still have so much to be thankful for even if they can find no thanks to give.

Many of Medjugorje's American visitors come from the affluent upper - middle class.

And while the Science authors found instruction to be basic and repetitive even in American schools with a mostly middle - class or upper - middle - class student population, they found that the situation was considerably worse in schools that enrolled a lot of low - income children.

Hmmm... I think by «American parenting», they might mean American upper - middle - class - and - probably - white - and urban - as - well, parenting.

First, while it was once the case that working - class and poor Americans held more conservative views of divorce than their middle - and upper - class peers, this is no longer so.

(Oh... wait... I forgot... Liberals only believe in abortion for African - Americans and poor people, not upper - middle class married white folks.

While socioeconomic status is a major contributor to the greater burden of heart disease and stroke in African Americans, the statement notes that among the growing middle - and upper - class African American community, health outcomes are still poorer in African Americans, even when their socioeconomic status is comparable to white Americans.

The Jeffrey Wigand we see here is an ordinary upper - middle - class American who makes an extraordinary decision for reasons he doesn't quite understand and whose consequences he can't imagine.

For that matter, marital discord and separation are topics unlikely for average upper middle class Americans to wrestle with in thoughtful and serious manner.

Cast: Greta Gerwig, Mickey Sumner, Adam Driver Program: Special Presentations Headline: Annie Ha Noel's Take: Someday when cultural historians look back at this era of cinema and television, they'll wonder why we so obsessively documented the lives of upper - middle - class city - dwelling Americans between the ages of 22 and 28.

Resident upper - and middle - class Chinese Americans, she says, could provide supportive networks to new Chinese immigrants that the other two groups can not access as readily.

The notion of trying to discover what one is good at or for, and shaping a career to realize these potentialities, would appear very upper middle class to many Americans, even today, when most aspire to college.

Other countries may be able to impose meaningful systems of test - based accountability, but the decentralized nature of American education and politics gives far more power to organized groups of upper - middle - class families and educators than to the technocratic elite.

Americans who place themselves in the middle or upper classes, women, and the more highly educated all tend to favor abortion being legal.

These tests are known to be culturally and linguistically biased in favour of English speaking, middle / upper class students of North American background.

For middle and upper class Americans, «summer vacation» frequently entails family vacations, camps and local enrichment programs (sports / arts / music) provided privately or by community - based organizations.

Some New York City neighborhoods are currently undergoing dramatic demographic shifts as white middle and upper - class families move back into the city, essentially a reversal of the white flight that occurred in the early 1950s in an attempt to escape the growing populations of African Americans in the cities (Burns Stillman 2012).

Children from black families in white suburbs are also set up for further success because they learn cultural characteristics of the white upper and middle classes, which are typically favored in American society.

Thus was born Associated American Artists (AAA), a highly influential commercial enterprise that brought art collecting to the middle and upper - middle classes in America.

Such engagement marks Barney's strikingly intimate and unparalleled examination of the social and cultural lives of predominantly middle - upper - class American and European families, for which she uses photography as her tool.

FAIRFIELD PORTER»28 lived and painted the breezy, cheerful life of American upper middle - class success.

Yeah, so it's sort of like whether you choose the criminal courts or the civil courts, Americans from poor people all the way up to upper middle class people just can not afford very much in the way of legal services.

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