Evaluating eating patterns and health status of undergraduate students majoring in human nutrition, Lahore, Pakistan: a cross-sectional study by Saad Afzal, Ayesha Iftikhar, Mateen Ahmad, Zeeshan Ashraf, Waseem Khalid, Shinawar Waseem Ali, Maryam Illyas, Fareed Afzal, Muhammad Zubair Khalid, Tawfiq Alsulami, Emery Lenge Mukonzo

“…Results showed that 63% of participants from upper middle-class backgrounds were either obese or underweight, while 25% of those affected by malnutrition were from lower middle-class backgrounds. …”
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Les supermarchés au Mexique et dans la Zone Métropolitaine de Mexico by Guénola Capron, Salomón González Arellano, Linda Moreno Sánchez

“…It seeks to understand how supermarkets, in a country like Mexico where they initially target mainly the middle class, reproduce or mitigate socio-spatial disparities. …”
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Alma-Tadema et le détournement de la culture savante by Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada

“…Alma-Tadema’s recreations of Antiquity were informed by his vast archaeological and literary knowledge of Roman and Greek culture, but at the same time, he dealt with themes that were easily readable by middle-class or popular publics. This paper aims at showing that there are different readings of his painting that inscribe him both in the “commodity culture” of the age—because of his interest for objects and archaeological artefacts that are reproduced time and again in his canvases—and in the Aesthetic Movement that posited the doctrine of art for art’s sake. …”
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STRATIFICATION OF MODERN RUSSIAN SOCIETY: METHODOLOGY, ANALYSIS AND TREND by A. Urunov

“…Unfortunately, the trend of increasing reduction of the middle class in Russia and exhaustion of its potential is observed.…”
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« Qu’aurais-je trouvé de plus chouette à Paris, Lyon ou Marseille ? » Socio-démo-géographie des Français·es de Bruxelles by Charlotte Casier, Jean-Michel Decroly

“…Unlike nationals of countries bordering Belgium, with whom a comparison is made, Franco-Brussels citizens are therefore more of a middle-class migration (Scott, 2006) than a transnational migrant elite.…”
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To Speed Our Boys Home... Produce and Conserve. Share and Play Square. Home Front Propaganda and Food during World War II: Rewriting Gender? by Hélène Le Dantec-Lowry

“…This construction had two concomitant consequences: first, the focus on 1950s white suburban housewives in middle-class suburbs during the Cold war, and second, the creation of female solidarity, which, in part, led to feminist demands in the 1960s.…”
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The covid-19 pandemic in vulnerable communities: the responses of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas by Dalia Maimon Schiray

“…We show that prevention, following WHO guidelines, is more easily adopted by the middle class. In low-income groups, housing conditions, lack of sanitation and informality limit the effectiveness of prevention. …”
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Les images d’enfermement dans John Marchmont’s Legacy de Mary Elizabeth Braddon by Marion Charret-Del Bove

“…Indeed this text allows Miss Braddon to throw light on the position of middle-class Victorian women in a patriarchal and particularly oppressive world. …”
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La réélection de Lula et la Gauche au Brésil by Adilar Cigolini, Francisco Mendonça, Irani dos Santos

“…In its first mandate, it promoted the action of the State by founding the participative democracy on the topics of health, education, installation, the environment or the human rights, which the middle class also appreciated. Thanks to his charismatic personality and his modest origin, the people feel represented and is identified with him. …”
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L’enseignement professionnel féminin à l’époque de la modernisation espagnole (1875-1930) by Maria Luisa Rico Gómez

“…In this context, the woman of the middle class becomes a student of the schools of arts and trades and the business schools because she was sure that a certificate diploma would modify the political and socio-economic relations imposed by the traditional speech of the woman.…”
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Normative talk about talk in child-caregiver interaction in Mexican families by Rojas-Nieto Cecilia

“…Data collected from spontaneous conversations between young children and their caregivers in middle-class urban families in the Mexican highlands show that the motives for normative control in this community are very diverse. …”
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Le genre féerique illustré à l’époque victorienne : splendeurs et déclin d’un genre entré en résistance by Audrey Doussot

“…The Victorian period was a phase of triumph for fairy literature before its fighting spirit was smothered by a tendency to conform to middle-class normative ideology and an increasingly infantilized content.…”
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Transgression de l’espace et espace de la transgression dans The Human Stain de Philip Roth by Gilles Mayné

“…Coleman Silk’s most striking—geographical, social and cultural—transgression comes from his decision to depart from New Jersey’s low-middle-class (black) districts to settle down in the cosy, right-thinking and compartmentalized (white) environment of a Massachusetts university. …”
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Revisões da masculinidade sob ditadura: Gabeira, Caio e Noll by Idelber Avelar

“…In Brasil the Abertura period coincided with the consolidation of the gay movement, divorce laws, the beginning of the massive incorporation of middle- class women to the wage labor force, increasing visibility of transvestites, and overall the marked decadence of the ideal man promoted by the military regime. …”
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Theories of the End of the Novel by Barış Mete

“…It was the work of Defoe, Richardson and Fielding in England in the same period of time that popularised the novel especially among the middle class readers. In contrast to the classical genres, particularly the epic, the novel was about common man. …”
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Early Swimming Clubs: A Question of Class by Win Hayes

“…The second group contains two sub groups: the upper middle class managers or owners of factories and secondly the allied groups of those involved in the running of organisations aiming to attract large memberships such as churches. …”
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Handsanitizer Formulation 70% with the Addition of Natural Performance by Aisyah Mentari, Hafni Nur Insan

“…Background: The use of hand antiseptics in the form of gel preparations among the upper middle class has become a lifestyle. Several hand sanitizer preparations can be found in the market and usually contain a lot of alcohol. …”
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Territories of Equivalence by Clare Louise Lyster

“…Mechanisation transformed space, in particular the household into an efficient machine, with industrial components and standardised dimensions (from the bathtub to the streamlined kitchen), while military manufacturing efficiencies and emerging technologies allowed consumer goods (from TV sets to Tupperware) to fill the middle class suburban home in the post-war era. This essay contemplates how logisticalisation, the latest incarnation of capitalist production, is permeating the design and conception of contemporary space through an exploration of the gadgets and objects that are increasingly used by the public as portals to the larger world of logistical flow. …”
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Images de l’étrange : Punch ou la re-présentation du paradigme bourgeois by Françoise Baillet

“…In the mid-Victorian period, at a time when the forces of respectability were rapidly transforming the British society, Punch, formerly famous for its biting pictorial comment on contemporary events, chose to champion the cause of the increasingly powerful middle-class. Under the pencil of Keene, Leech or du Maurier, the picture became one of the means through which the bourgeois identity was built, defended and promoted. …”
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Educational endeavors in a rural society –an example from a small community in Sweden by Peter Erlandson, Anne Kjellsdotter

“…In contrast, national policies, along with the prevailing influence of metro-centric middle-class culture, advocate a different path, prioritising formal education to meet the demands of late modern society.…”
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