In fact, they often revamped their social activities to include class members previously unknown.

For instance, in giving school grades or in making recommendations for the award of a college scholarship, does he consciously or unconsciously favor students of one or another social class??

However, there are relatively few such political constituencies, and, as has been pointed out, there is seldom a clear-cut distinction between the educational interests of one social class and those of another.

But there is very little frank and conscious espousal of the interests of any one social class by the people who have the power to make decisions in education.

Members of higher and lower social status often cluster around this nucleus, so that Protestant figures on social class give the impression of spread over all social classes ; ;

the lay ministry is a means to recruit like-minded people who will strengthen the social class nucleus of the congregation.

It now becomes evident that the denominational church is intimately involved with the economy of middle-class culture, for it serves to crystallize the social class identity of middle-class residential groupings.

`` The primary objective of non-violence '', writes the outstanding Mennonite ethicist, `` is not peace, or obedience to the divine will, but rather certain desired social changes, for personal, or class, or national advantage ''.

A common criticism has been that many social science scholars ( such as economists, sociologists, and psychologists ) in Western countries focus disproportionately on Western subjects, while anthropology focuses disproportionately on the " other "; this has changed over the last part of the twentieth century as anthropologists increasingly, also study Western subjects, particularly variation across class, region, or ethnicity within Western societies, and other social scientists increasingly take a global view of their fields.

This was not a standard in a modern technical sense – it was the social standard of " upper class " speech.

He, like many Canadian farmers of the era, conceived of farmers as a distinct social class in the midst of a class struggle against capitalists who owned the banks, railways, and grain trading companies which profited from the efforts of farmers.

The school has been highly influential in setting the agenda for historiography in France and numerous other countries, especially regarding the use of social scientific methods by historians, emphasizing social rather than political or diplomatic themes, and for being generally hostile to the class analysis of Marxist historiography.

The plot displays many classic elements of farce, including puns, the slamming of doors, cases of mistaken identity ( frequently involving characters disguising themselves as one another ), and satirical comments on social class.

Sometimes tattoos signaled social class.

* Captain Foulenough: archetypal cad and gatecrasher who impersonates the upper class in order to wreck their social events.

Different societies apply different criteria regarding who is classified as " black ", and often social variables such as class and socio-economic status also play a role, so that relatively dark-skinned people can be classified as white if they fulfill other social criteria of " whiteness " and relatively light-skinned people can be classified as black if they fulfill the social criteria for " blackness " in a particular setting.

A comedy of manners film satirises the manners and affectations of a social class, often represented by stock characters.

It is particularly relevant for the social class to which most of Confucius ' students belonged, because the only way for an ambitious young scholar to make his way in the Confucian Chinese world was to enter a ruler's civil service.

Agriculturalism ( 農家 / 农家 ; Nongjia ) was an early agrarian social and political philosophy in ancient China that advocated peasant utopian communalism and egalitarianism.

Agriculturalism was an early agrarian social and political philosophy that advocated peasant utopian communalism and egalitarianism.

Catherine the Great extended Russian political control over the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth with actions including the support of the Targowica Confederation, although the cost of her campaigns, on top of the oppressive social system that required lords ' serfs to spend almost all of their time laboring on the lords ' land, provoked a major peasant uprising in 1773, after Catherine legalized the selling of serfs separate from land.

" It is for this reason that it has been suggested that in order to understand American individualist anarchism one must take into account " the social context of their ideas, namely the transformation of America from a pre-capitalist to a capitalist society ... the non-capitalist nature of the early U. S. can be seen from the early dominance of self-employment ( artisan and peasant production ).

Conceived to rival his heroes Michelangelo and Poussin, it was also the painting that marked his transition from the depiction of symbolic imagery of peasant life to that of contemporary social conditions.

Thus, Lenin's practical application of Marxism and working-class urban revolution to the social, political, and economic conditions of the agrarian peasant society that was Tsarist Russia sparked the “ revolutionary nationalism of the poor ” to depose the absolute monarchy of the three-hundred-year Romanov dynasty ( 1613 – 1917 ).

Here, he was taught alongside students of a higher social standing, and was often bullied for his scruffy appearance and peasant background ; being much older than the other pupils, he failed to fit in.

The Franco government showed it was serious about social justice by expropriating more than 200, 000 hectares of land and distributing it to 10, 000 peasant families.

In the cities, the FARC-EP began integrating itself with the UP and forming Juntas Patrióticas ( or " solidarity cells ") -- small groups of people associated with labor unions, student activist groups, and peasant leagues, who traveled into the barrios discussing social problems, building support for the UP, and determining the sociopolitical stance of the urban peasantry.

According to social anthropologist María Clemencia Ramírez, the relationship between the guerrillas and the marches was ambivalent: FARC-EP promoted the 1996 protests as part of their participatory democracy policies yet also exercised authoritarianism, which led to tensions and negotiations with peasant leaders, but the cocalero movement brought proposals on behalf of the coca growers and defended its own interests.

* The ( GPP, " prolonged popular war ") faction was rural-based and sought long-term " silent accumulation of forces " within the country's large peasant population, which it saw as the main social base for the revolution.

Long before Saddam, Iraq had been split along social, ethnic, religious, and economic fault lines: Sunni versus Shi ' ite, Arab versus Kurd, tribal chief versus urban merchant, nomad versus peasant.

Some of them believed that the Russian peasant commune, or Mir, offered an attractive alternative to Western capitalism and could make Russia a potential social and moral savior representing thus a form of Russian messianism.

He was also on one occasion chided by Rome's social leaders for refusing to make his ( Pius X's ) peasant sisters papal countesses, to which he responded ' I have made them sisters of the pope ; what more can I do for them?

" Peasants and politics ," Journal of Peasant Studies, Volume 1, Issue 1 October 1973, pages 3 – 22-article discusses the definition of " peasant " as used in social sciences

The period of his leadership is known in Mexican history as La Reforma del Norte ( The Reform of the North ), and constituted a liberal political and social revolution with major institutional consequences: the expropriation of church lands, the subordination of army to civilian control, liquidation of peasant communal land holdings, the separation of church and state in public affairs, and also the almost-complete disenfranchisement of bishops, priests, nuns and lay brothers.

After the bagaudae came to the full attention of the central authorities about 284, re-establishment of the settled social order was swift and severe: the peasant insurgents were crushed in 286 by the Caesar Maximian and his subordinate Carausius, under the aegis of the Augustus Diocletian.

In 1907, social unrest among the peasant classes precipitated intervention by the Romanian army.

On the whole, the Protestants had a higher social status, and the Catholics were more likely to be peasant farmers or unskilled or semiskilled industrial workers.

Arévalo implemented social reforms such as minimum wage laws, increased educational funding, near-universal suffrage ( excluding illiterate women ), and labor reforms ; but many of these changes only benefited the upper-middle classes and did little for the peasant agricultural laborers that made up the majority of the population.

Agriculturalism ( 農家 / 农家 ; Nongjia ) was an early agrarian social and political philosophy that advocated peasant utopian communalism and egalitarianism.

Carlism was a true mass movement and drew its rank and file from all social classes, with a majority of peasant and working class elements.

Palestine's fellahin, the country's peasant farmers, comprised over two-thirds of the indigenous Arab population and from the 1920s onwards they were pushed off the land in increasingly large numbers into urban environments where they often encountered only poverty and social marginalization.

The Komsomol needed full-time commitment, and peasant youths, who saw it as a chance for social mobility, education, and economic success, were willing to abandon their traditional duties to join.