Music and the Middle Classes: The Social Structure of Concert Life in London, Paris and Vienna between 1830 and 1848.

1976 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 701
Author(s):  
Cyril Ehrlich ◽  
William Weber
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Middle Classes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Concert Life

“The Whirl of Life” The Social Structure

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Robert Reed
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Class Structure ◽  
Middle Classes ◽  
The Social

This chapter explores the intricacies of the first discernible class structure that conformed to normative standards of socioeconomic status in Chicago's history. Black Chicago developed a very small but distinguishable upper class, large segments within the broad middle classes, enormous laboring classes including industrial and service sector workers, and an underclass. The members of the upper class owned and managed businesses, chose housing commensurate with their status, consumed their disposable income with conspicuous delight, engaged in civic activities, and socially acted as a group apart from other segments of their racial cohort to which they traditionally held their primary social allegiance. The middle class focused on occupation, wealth production, educational attainment, cultural interests, and character. The working-class, however, formed the bulk of black Chicago's citizenry.

Images of China's Social Structure: The Changing Perspectives of Canton Students

1982 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita Chan
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Middle Classes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Popular Images ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
The Cultural Revolution

Based on documentation and in-depth interviews with 14 emigrants from China; this study traces changing perceptions of China's social structure by different urban social groups. Each group adopted a perspective that best served its own interests. In the fifties and sixties these images did not necessarily coincide with—but nonetheless were within—the bounds of the image propagated by the Chinese authorities. During and since the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution, a new perception of society has been formulated particularly by people from the former middle classes: the issue centers on whether a new bureaucratic class has emerged in China. The article closes with a discussion of the authorities' recent attempts to redefine popular images of the social structure in response to a changed social reality and China's eagerness to modernize.

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