Contribution of geotagged Twitter data in the study of a social group’s activity space by Alexandre Cebeillac, Yves-Marie Rault

“…Using a sample of luxury shoppers, we analyzed the daily activity and mobility patterns of the upper middle class in Delhi, India. We intersected these data with the results of an ethnographic study carried out in two luxury shopping places in Delhi and found that the lower middle class was overrepresented in the Twitter sample. …”
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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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Sexual Inversion, Smoke, and Mirrors: The (In)Visibility of John Addington Symonds’s Homosexuality in his Autobiographical Writings by William Fize

“…Not a doctor himself, but being a homosexual, Symonds developed his identity as a member of the Victorian upper-middle class, shaped by the norms of the time, as he told his story in his correspondence and his posthumous Memoirs. …”
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Cidades e exclusão social: o Sul dentro do Sul, o Norte dentro do Sul by Marília Veríssimo Veronese

“…Considering the urban space as a place of production of thinking, practices and modes of subjectivation, concerning groups "underlings", we approach a snip of the project, seeking to understand the North-South relations within the South, i.e. to analyze how a group, inserted in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Porto Alegre, RS, constructs their representations of collective life, in a territory whose surroundings often proves hostile. …”
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Household Waste Management Strategy in Upper Middle Housing by Susan Rendra Utama, Mei Ahyanti

“…Emphasizing household waste reduction through the 3R+P model, tailored for upper-middle-class housing, and bolstering community waste management awareness through continuous campaigns is essential.…”
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A Growing Middle Class and Real Estate Development: Spatial change and social conflicts in the densification of Kileleshwa, Nairobi by Jackson Kago, Catherine Gateri, Owiti A K’Akumu

“…Kileleshwa has gained the reputation of a smart, upper-middle-class Kenyan suburb, and expatriates find it a safe, tranquil and stress-free area. …”
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Burden of associated comorbidities in autoimmune rheumatic diseases in Indian population: An interim report based on the Indian rheumatology association database by S Chandrashekara, Padmanabha Shenoy, Uma Kumar, Sapan Pandya, Alakendu Ghosh

“…The socioeconomic distribution of AIRDS indicated that SLE was more prevalent among upper-middle-class followed by SpA (60.3% and 50.94%, respectively). …”
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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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Évolution des modèles d’implantation de la villégiature sur le littoral tunisois by Sondès Zaier, Hichem Rejeb, Pierre Donadieu

“…These new settlements, built according to a step-by-step process, have generated several urban models transforming an abandoned area to an authentic touristic and resort destination for the upper middle classes as well as a popular place for summer leisure.…”
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“Defendendo” a sociedade: um estudo sobre as trajetórias de oito juízes by Ricardo Visser, Gustavo Siqueira

“…Taking into account quantitative data and also our qualitative research, it was observed that there is a correspondence between both analytical levels which leads to the perception that judges are mainly recruited in the middle and upper middle classes. Taking them as observers of national politics and public policies, we do not intend to reconstruct the political “mentality” of the judges, but to indicate a persisting pattern in their discourses and standpoints. …”
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Gardé·es à vue. Domination(s) et reconfigurations des rapports entre manifestant·es et policier·es pendant le hirak (2019-2021) by Lina Benchekor

“…In addition, the class allegiances of those arrested give rise to what appears to be a class struggle between activists and police officers, with those arrested often coming from the upper middle classes. However, these two parties do not constitute two homogenous, enemy blocs. …”
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