middle-class values
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middle-class
adjective
uk/ˌmɪd.əlˈklɑːs/us/ˌmɪd.əlˈklæs/
UK
relating to a social group that consists of well-educated people, such as doctors, lawyers, and teachers, who have good jobs and are not poor, but are not ...
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value
noun
uk/ˈvæl.juː/us/ˈvæl.juː/
the amount of money that can be received ...
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They were thus important in spreading middle-class values and practices to the working classes.
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It was an attempt, in the author's view, to establish a measure of social control by instilling middle-class values amongst working-class drinkers.
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If the design and layout of the progressive rock fanzine are homologous with anything it is surely middle-class values of professionalism, 'quality' and respectability.
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We live in our cushy middle-class world with our cushy middle-class values and fictions and often remain purposely blind to the suffering of the poor, the weak, and the powerless.
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It is argued that the traditional educational values which are embodied in the direct-grant schools are middle-class values.
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Why not let children do just as they like instead of imposing middle-class values upon them?
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I object most strongly to those patronising people who say that those are middle-class values.
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Fourthly, sports activities are largely working-class based in a society where middle-class values tend to predominate.
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A number of papers passed out of existence during this time; among the survivors a newer and less polemical view toward middle-class values and working within the system emerged.
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