A class act? Social background and body modifications in Australia

Social Media Writing and Social Class: A Correlational Analysis of Adolescent CMC and Social Background

In a large social media corpus (2.9 million tokens), we analyze Flemish adolescents’ non-standard writing practices and look for correlations with the teenagers’ social class. Three different aspects of adolescents’ social background are included: educational track, parental profession, and home language. Since the data reveal that these parameters are highly correlated, we combine them into on...

the relationship between language and social capital in ilami kurdish: a sociopragmatic approach

چکیده زبان به عنوان یک وسیله در ایجاد و بازسازی سرمایه اجتماعی در چند دهه گذشته مورد توجه بوده است. اگر چه درباره سرمایه اجتماعی و سازه های مربوط به آن زیاد نوشته شده است ولی خیلی کم بر روی اینکه چطور زبان می تواند باعث ایجاد اعتماد یا بی اعتمادی بشود مطالعه ای انجام شده است. این مطالعه به منظور تحقق دو هدف انجام گرفته است. اول تلاش خواهد شد تا یک گونه شناسی از واژگانی که مردم کرد زبان شهر ا...

The CLASS Act and gerontological social work.

Constitutional background to the Social Security Act of 1935.

In June 1937, the Senate Judiciary Committee reported unfavorably on Roosevelt's Court-packing plan and the bill was effectively killed. In the same month, Justice Van Devanter retired and gave Roosevelt his first opportunity to make an appointment to the Supreme Court. Over the following 6 years, Roosevelt made seven more appointments to the Court, and in the years that followed the Court cont...

Women's body dissatisfaction, social class, and social mobility.

Several studies indicate that socially advantaged women are more dissatisfied with their bodies than socially disadvantaged women. These findings have been based on women's current social class, and no attention has been paid to the social class of her family of origin or to intergenerational social mobility. In the present research 912 54-year-old women from a prospective birth cohort study pr...