Examples of upper class

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In most societies, the working-class women have enjoyed greater independence than middle- and upper-class women.
He did not have to make all of his upper-class men reprehensible, though his prominent villains are from the upper ranks.
However, in carrying out these tasks, these party agents necessarily confronted a very different world from that inhabited by upper-class elites and middle-class men.
Second, the style's sophisticated amalgam of diverse sources reflects, for lack of a better term, ' white' cosmopolitanism specific to a zona sul upper-class milieu.
It may be relevant here that hysteria was thought to be most common among upper-class women.
Thus, the evidence suggests that complex households were mostly and consistently an upper-class attribute.
Female shoppers, enticed by new metropolitan retail development, carved out a space for middle- and upper-class women in the public spaces of the city.
She was a petite bourgeoise, a grocer's daughter; they were mostly upper-middle class or upper-class and also wealthy.
Since very few middle- or upper-class women would have property in the form of earnings the double standard between rich and poor could be maintained.
Yet what is striking is not the marginal character of the phenomena described but their inseparability from both popular and upper-class culture.
Moreover, in quieter, middle- and upper-class neighbourhoods, notions of respectability shaped new regulations on the use of public space.
As part of the nationalist rhetoric, domestic skills would make upper-class women selfsufficient and independent rather than reliant on household help.
Thinking about these upper-class dreamers and visionaries can help us challenge the common divide between elite and popular religiosities.
Yet he was also, by the end of the forties, a young man writing to support himself and his family, including an upper-class wife.
The heart of the trope is that a person of upper-class standing, often an aristocrat, has chosen to serve in the ranks.
This heralded a period of choro clubs, competitions and festivals, a new choro revival involving middle- and upper-class youth with university educations.
Thus, despite the supposed postmodernist reappraisal of cultural categories, opera retains its connotations of upper-class leisure-time.
In the 1920s and 1930s the popular illustrated weeklies began to publish photos and stories on upper-class young women, often set in exotic backgrounds.
The episode is a good example of the jealousy that an upper-class female amateur musician could arouse in a male professional.
For the upper-class group, the following factors were important: the effect of going to university on future earnings, and encouragement received from family and friends.
The effect was on the cusp of statistical significance for the upper-class group.
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