Sentences with phrase «middle class of society»

By 1850 pigeon racing was solidly established in Belgium, and Charles Dickens wrote, «The members of the Antwerp Pigeon Training Society were citizens of the middle class of Society, but in Belgium pigeon - training has its attractions even for persons of rank and wealth, many of whom are enthusiastic pigeon fanciers; indeed, pigeon flying is as fashionable an amusement in Belgium as horse - racing in England.

And then the upper middle class of the societies involved.

Not exact matches

On the other hand, members of the middle class take jobs they don't enjoy «because they need the money, and they've been trained in school and conditioned by society to live in a linear thinking world that equates earning money with physical or mental effort.»

It would be dishonest to blame everything on the middle class, although they should reasonably be expected to be the moral spine of any society.

These changes, Bloomberg argues, have further divided an already unequal society and decreased the number of middle class consumers.

Still, people like this author clamor for more bureaucracy as a defense of the rest of society, the middle class and the poor.

We became a middle - class society only after the concentration of income at the top dropped sharply during the New Deal, and especially during World War II.

Cultural resistance to marriage In certain sections of society, marriage has been almost eliminated from the culture; increasingly it has become the privilege of the middle classes.

My argument is that we are called to project a vision of a just society that would be at once attractive to middle class North Americans and also get us off the backs of oppressed people who are seeking liberation.

That most theologians, even those whose social location in the white North American middle class, verbally support efforts to achieve the changes needed in our society to make some minimum of justice possible elsewhere, such as in Latin America, is already a testimony to the power of the gospel.

According to this view, the New Deal had a more profound impact on American society than even its most ardent admirers have suggested: it imposed norms of relative equality in pay that persisted for more than 30 years, creating the broadly middle - class society we came to take for granted.

Given the attitudes of middle - class people, the economic structures of society, the way political power is exercised, and the despair of the adults around them.

«24 And the suburban church proved for Gibson Winter to be a middle - class enclave possessing little capacity for coherent belief distinct from that of the society that holds it captive.25

Those of us who are privileged (e.g, are white, male, middle - class or higher, educated, able - bodied, heterosexual, and / or physically attractive, etc.) benefit from living in a society that accommodates rather than alienates us.

We observe that there is no sphere of human society that is left untouched — working class, middle class, upper class, all have done, continue to do and will do evil things.

We have now considered several methodologies for arriving at a standard of what we must share of our own with the rest of the world if we are to remain a part of the middle class of an affluent society and still be faithful.

If we are to live faithfully and in right relationship, what does this mean for our participation in the middle class of a capitalist society?

They often seem to assume that First World, white, middle - class societies are by definition irredeemable; that they are driven by an irreversible logic of oppression and injustice.

An Untouchable had no chance of becoming a Brahmin, and a member of the lower feudal orders had few opportunities to make it into the aristocracy, but the poor in a class society have at least a reasonable chance of making it into the middle class and some middle - class individuals do make it into the ranks of the rich.

So when middle - class women in mid-20th-century America felt restricted and stressed by society's expectations, was it any wonder that the era of the problem that had no name became the era of the «mother's little helper»?

His analogy is functionalist: physical inheritance in prehension functions like the general populace which predominates in a tradition - rooted society; the novelty of the conceptual pole of a prehension plays the same role as the originative activities of the «fortunate classes», the middle class entrepreneurs, who predominate in modern society.

It is contrasted, in other words, with study of the studies that show us what we most need to know as productive beings in a free, middle - class society.

Wall explores the meaning and application of the religious freedom amendment in the Bill of Rights for our pluralistic society with its many religious minorities, and a majority that is Christian, white and middle class.

In seeking for equivalents, I have often thought that the phrase «bourgeois morality» could simply be rendered «middle - class morality,» that «bourgeois society» is close to what has been called by others «a business civilization,» and that the «bourgeois mentality» has many features of what more recently has been identified as the white Anglo - Saxon Protestant (WASP) outlook.

There is far less day - to - day casual violence in middle - class society than when I was a teenager — and there are far more incidents of cold, senseless mass murder.

Dorothee Sölle has noted the extent to which middle - class societies have tried to insulate themselves from the pain of others and the pain of self.

Here, as in other places of the world, the educational fruits of the 19th - century missionary movement produced an energetic middle class that was new to traditional societies.

In the Middle Ages this depreciation of manual labor was blended with the class structure of feudal society and given a religious sanction.

Marx and his followers have made me realize that my middle class perspective is inadequate to the appreciation of the prophetic tradition, which, like Marxism, views society from the point of view of the oppressed.

The emergence of the new middle class and their wealth manifest themselves in the society in several ways.

We need a post-Vatican Two equivalent, something both truly Catholic and yet usable in our multicultural society, something that will get us out of the ghetto we are still largely in, but not in order to conform to middle - class culture, rather to call it to conversion, alongside Christians of other Churches moved by the same zeal.

3 This suggests that he saw the middle class as the source of life in a society, apart from which society would be «bound» to its traditions.

The minority who constitute the middle class, whose minds are set free from immediate physical concerns, are presented as the fountainhead for most of society's novel ideals, which serve as a lure for social reform.

In modern societies Instinct has given way somewhat to Intellect, which is represented by the middle class, and novelty is no longer viewed as sheer destructive chaos, but as the basis for possible contractual modifications of communal custom.

With the building of North American society and the gradual transformation of certain «sects» into «denominations,» the individualistic, philanthropic, and sentimental ethic common to Methodists came to dominate the middle - class Protestant churches of the United States.

Why is it that lactivists can't distinguish between impoverished societies with lack of clean water and middle class USA?

Thus, for Hegel bourgeois civil society is not the space for freedom of expression and association, instead, he reminds us that civil society is not only the distinct product of a modern social formation (middle class and capitalism) but also an alienated reality, torn between the demand of private individual and the state.

Other pro- Npp middle class civil society groups were formed to augment activities of occupyGhana and the opposition.

This seems surprising when one looks at the statistics — after all, the developing middle class, an indicator of a more urban and modernizing society, is still a minority (perhaps 300 million of China's 1.3 billion population), albeit a fast - growing one, and China remains a very poor country in terms of per capita GDP, as well as substantially rural.

Having said this, it would not be fair to say that these aims are necessarily rooted in the experience of the society as a whole; their vision does seem to have been developed around the specific experience of the educated middle class.

Truth is many on the left, both professionally in the party and socially via the vote, supported section 28, believe homosexual practice to be wrong, thinks the EU erodes their freedom not enhances it, and finds state - funded baby - killing to be a poor indicator of a supposedly «civilised» society: whatever the middle - class metropolitan «progressives» might sneeringly say.

What does «middle class» mean in this context in the US and why don't Americans also hear this as a callous disregard for the poorest sections of society?

The Council tax really digs into the incomes of the poorest earners in society, but at least the Lib Dems where shielded from making a decision that would had the potential to them unpopular among the middle classes.

It allows the middle class to lobby more powerfully for greater control and risks further marginalising those who have already been shuffled onto the outskirts of society.

«It punishes the poor for being poor, it punishes the middle class for living in a society that does not protect them and it rewards those who already have it made by either growing up white, growing rich, or growing up in a state that protects only those who are in the top quintile or in some cases the top one percent of income earners.»

The question is, why did they choose to spend such vast sums on extending targeted services to the middle class, while making such severe cuts to the welfare of the poorest in our society?

The Green Party and I are running on a progressive agenda of helping the poor and the middle class gain democratic control of society so that we can equitably distribute the wealth that is being produced, and to stop the plutocracies of this nation and world from exploiting Earth's resources anymore than they already have.

Once there, instead of building up their social capital, they continue to «concentrate very intensely on their work,... whereas often their upper or middle - class peers are involved in societies; they're networking; they're doing a whole range of things that actually support their career,» Reay says.

«You learn more about the reflection of a society not by talking about their kings and queens and the middle class but whom the society is fearful of.

«After years of effort, the wise and hard - working people of Harbin have finally managed to skip both the middle - class society and the communist society stages, and have now entered a fairyland society!»