This paper investigates the history of concept bourgeoisie in Poland, emphasising troubles with its assimilation into Polish language, and special entanglement socialist modernist discourse. The concept, it is argued, was borrowed late nineteenth century from France, where concerned urban upper-middle class; arrived Poland as part discourse time, which gave strong negative derogatory connotatio...

A teacher's problem, as diagnosed by the author of this book, appears to be that he is incurably middle-class in his ideas, economically dependent on continuing to be so, and yet socially barely on the fringe of the bourgeoisie. He suffers therefore, it is contended, all the privations?social, sexual and psychological?of his religious and moral ideology without the corresponding middle-class co...

The main aims of the paper are to explore how far class origins and qualifications can account for ethnic minority disadvantage in Britain and to explore whether they operate in the same way for the ethnic minorities as they do for the white majority. Thus the paper examines both the processes that promote inclusion into advantaged positions (in the professional and managerial classes of the sa...