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Record 1 1994-06-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology of Human Relations
DEF

moving to a lower social class or status.

CONT

[The hero of the film "Sammy and Rose",] Sammy, a half-Asian, half-English accountant, is married to Rosie, a fashionably dressed "downwardly mobile" white social worker. They live in inner-city London, a polyglot world inhabited by punks, gays, Rastafarians and the unemployed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie des relations humaines

Spanish

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