While an estimated 80 percent of the arpilleristas came from poor or working-class households, the remaining 20 percent came from upper-middle class households, primarily motivated by the disappearances of family members and the desire to show solidarity with the victims of political violence [REF].
Sociologist Jacqueline Adams has noted that in the early 1980s, the Catholic Church grew less vocally critical of the Pinochet regime and dismissed the Vicariate's more radical staff members, which she contends led to a shift in the content of the arpilleras.