Sentence examples for a class position from inspiring English sources

Haitian immigrants in the USA would hold a class position among upper-income persons in Haiti.

With 20-odd years' hindsight, it makes sense, of course, that a class positioned between two other classes might be the greater home for conformity after all.

In her study of working class femininity, Beverly Skeggs (2004, 2005) argues that one of the ways in which a classed position of judgment can be maintained is through assigning the other as 'immoral, repellent, abject, worthless, disgusting, even disposable' (Skeggs 2005, 977).

So we moved to Denver, and he got a job in the Post Office - a middle class position for a black man in those days.

It showed that, far from being self-deceiving, clerks did in fact have a unique class position.

They were in a middle class position.

This model, in other words, links an individual's class position to a social status based on consumption.

And, as a tenant, you are in a negatively privileged class position.

The findings indicated that the usual methods of interior architecture education address a well-balanced class position in active/reflective and sensing/intuitive scales, a moderate to strong preference in visual scale and a weak preference in global scale.

The single most important predictor of a child's class position is the occupation of the child's parent.

If we think of mobility simply in terms of the proportion of individuals who are found in a different social class position to that of their parents, this proportion remained remarkably stable across birth cohorts of men and women from the end of the Second World War down to the 1980s.