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Working-class Respectability

Working-Class Respectability is a social construct that denotes the distinct set of values, behaviors, and moral codes cultivated by working-class communities to assert dignity, self-worth, and social integrity in the face of economic marginalization and dominant middle-class norms.

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10

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2017–2026

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Publications

16

Social Class and Parental Values

Melvin L. Kohn · American Journal of Sociology · 1959 · 310 citations

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"Will The Real Bill Banks Please Stand Up?" Towards A Role Analysis Of Mid-Victorian Working-Class Respectability

Peter J. Bailey · Journal of Social History · 1979 · 132 citations

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Religion and Respectability: Sunday Schools and Working-Class Culture, 1780-1850.

Callum Brown, Thomas Laqueur · The Economic History Review · 1978 · 97 citations

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Honourable mobility or shameless entitlement? Habitus and graduate employment

Jessie Abrahams · British Journal of Sociology of Education · 2016 · 91 citations

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WORKING-CLASS RESPECTABILITY: THE EXAMPLE OF THE WESTERN AREAS OF JOHANNESBURG, 1930–55

David Goodhew · The Journal of African History · 2000 · 54 citations

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Authors

18

  1. SC
    Simon Cordery

    Iowa State University, United States

    1 publications · 30 citations

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  2. SA
    Sarah Attfield

    1 publications · 14 citations

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  3. JR
    James Rhodes

    University of Manchester, United Kingdom

    1 publications · 33 citations

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  4. EL
    Elias le Grand

    Stockholm University, Sweden

    1 publications · 19 citations

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  5. JS
    Joan Sangster

    Trent University, Canada

    1 publications · 27 citations

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Institutions

10

  1. University of Glasgow

    Glasgow, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    27 citations

  2. Ramapo College

    Mahwah, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    50 citations

  3. University of Manitoba

    Winnipeg, Canada

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    132 citations

  4. University of Manchester

    Manchester, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    33 citations

  5. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    47 citations

  6. Manchester Metropolitan University

    Manchester, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    11 citations

  7. Stockholm University

    Stockholm, Sweden

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    19 citations

  8. Teesside University

    Middlesbrough, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    12 citations

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Venues

  1. Sociological Research Online

    1 publications · 19 citations

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  2. International Labor and Working-Class History

    1 publications · 50 citations

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  3. Journal of Social History

    1 publications · 132 citations

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  4. Geoforum

    1 publications · 47 citations

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  5. Sociology

    1 publications · 27 citations

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