So Krall has become a one-stop shop for acquiring an acceptable middle-class cultural sophistication.
He was 27, which he described as "a dreadfully uncomfortable age for a middle-class cultural guerrilla".
Since then, literature has ceased to be the dominant middle-class cultural preference, and the barrier between the authentic and the parodic has collapsed.
Through the advent of the LP, the record player had already become for the second half of the century what the piano had been for the first half: the instrument of instruments and the furniture of middle-class cultural aspirations.
But Kyle genuinely torments the wretched, evincing moral contumely for their recklessness, self-indulgence, "promiscuity" – in short, their failure to implement the middle-class cultural norms of aspiration and enterprise.
Others charged that Providence Talks was imposing middle-class cultural values on poorer parents who had their own valid approaches to raising children, and argued that the program risked faulting parents for their children's academic shortcomings while letting schools off the hook.
The facility has a rich collection of archival materials and iconography illustrating the history of Białystok and Podlasie, and a number of middle-class cultural relics, especially in the field of craft utility.
A fascinating series of studies published in 2012 by a multi-university research team revealed that "predominantly middle-class cultural norms of independence" are particularly ill-suited for young adults who are the first in their families to attend college.
These students have limited exposure to the culture of college and are often from working-class backgrounds that may be at odds with the middle-class cultural norms of universities (e.g., the emphasis on abstract over practical knowledge and independence over interdependence; Stephens et al., 2012; Wilson and Kittleson, 2013).
Soirees perpetuated the rising middle class's cultural interests in books, writing, dance, and poetry readings all subject matter for Biedermeier painting, which was either genre or historical and most often sentimentally treated.
