Newt Gingrich said, at a campaign stop in Richmond, Virginia, that Obama has a "European radical attitude toward class warfare".
In her best work, Nottage offers a powerful critique of the American attitude toward class, and how it affects the decisions we make, including whom to love and how.
Mr. Yates and Mr. Tesich used them to illustrate American attitudes toward class, education, upward mobility, romance and athletic success.
In talking with my mother about the differences between her experience and mine, the starkest discrepancies have to do with our classmates' attitudes toward class.
When he was 7, Mr. Cameron was sent to Heatherdown, a prep school whose alumni include Princes Andrew and Edward, and whose attitudes toward class were clear: on field day, the portable bathrooms were designated Ladies, Gentlemen and Chauffeurs.
As the very tall John Cleese declared to the less-tall Ronnie Corbett in the famous 1966 satirical television sketch meant to illustrate class attitudes in Britain — or, possibly, attitudes toward class attitudes — "I look down on him, because I am upper class".
You could not ask for a better illustration of the complexity of ordinary Americans' attitudes toward class, wealth, and social identity than the fact that a billionaire's popularity among working-class voters has given him the lead in the race for the Republican Presidential nomination.
Similarly, attitude toward science class was calculated by taking an average of the analogous two items relating to science class.
Attitude toward math class was an average of two items from the NELS:88 survey (I look forward to math class; I think math will be important in my future).
Thus, if justice is held in high regard, but the person categorizes politicians as interfering with justice, then the person's attitude toward that class of people is taken to be negative.
However, low-income status, student native language, parental nativity status, attitude toward math class, and student locus of control were not significant predictors.
