- The
underclass is the
segment of the po****tion that
occupies the
lowest possible position in a
class hierarchy,
below the core body of the
working class...
-
Locus says that the
novel "digs into
societal issues:
economics and
underclasses and
power trips" and as such,
invites comparison to The
Traitor Baru...
- Helots).
Besides the
Spartiate class,
there were many free non-citizen
underclasses. The Perioeci,
literally meaning "dwelling around", were
citizens of...
-
emphasis on
giving a
voice to the
voiceless and
writing the
history of the
underclasses,
whether by
using the
quantitative statistical methods of
social history...
-
particularly in the South. The
Panic of 1873
resulted in
expanding Memphis's
underclasses amid the
poverty and
hardship it wrought,
giving further credence to...
-
citizens could not be
demoted to
perioecic status;
there were
specific underclasses for
former Spartan citizens, such as hypomeiones, tresantes, etc. The...
- S****ing to
rebut the
argument of Huxley's
Mustapha Mond—that
moronic underclasses were a
necessary "social gyroscope" and that a
society composed solely...
-
concluded that "all of
these lessons are
prime training for
permanent underclasses,
people deprived forever of
finding the
center of
their own
special genius"...
-
members of
either the
middle class, or bourgeoisie, or the
working and
underclasses, or proletariat. This is
regarded by such
people as the most important...
-
critics of the
culture of
poverty explanations for the
persistence of the
underclasses have
attempted to show that real
world data does not fit Lewis's model...
