Middle Class Identities And Social Crisis

Author : Alejandro Grimson,Menara Guizardi,Silvina Merenson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000802382

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Middle Class Identities and Social Crisis by Alejandro Grimson,Menara Guizardi,Silvina Merenson Pdf

This book explores the dynamics of the "middle-class global rebellion" born of the frustration at declining living standards. Addressing narratives constructed by different social and political agents and groups, it examines contexts of social crisis in Latin America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania, understanding the middle classes as a set of complex and conflicting political relationships. With attention to the manner in which people create "situated habits", consolidating new expectations and desires through a concrete biography, it analyzes continuities and changes in classed self-perceptions based on performative use. With new perspectives, including historical and intersectional approaches, Middle Class Identities and Social Crisis transcends disciplinary boundaries to explore the hybridity of research methods and techniques and challenge established analytical frameworks. It will therefore appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in class and questions of class identity.

Author : Alejandro Grimson,Menara Guizardi,Silvina Merenson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Group identity
ISBN : 1032331895

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Middle Class Identities and Social Crisis by Alejandro Grimson,Menara Guizardi,Silvina Merenson Pdf

"This book explores the dynamics of the 'middle-class global rebellion' born of the frustration at declining living standards. Addressing narratives constructed by different social and political agents and groups, it examines contexts of social crisis in Latin America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania, understanding the middle classes as a set of complex and conflicting political relationships. With attention to the manner in which people create 'situated habits', consolidating new expectations and desires through a concrete biography, it analyses continuities and changes in classed self-perceptions based on performative use. With new perspectives, including historical and intersectional approaches, Middle Class Identities and Social Crisis transcends disciplinary boundaries to explore the hybridity of research methods and techniques and challenge established analytical frameworks. It will therefore appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in class and questions of class identity"--

Author : Alejandro Grimson,Menara Guizardi,Silvina Merenson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000802320

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Middle Class Identities and Social Crisis by Alejandro Grimson,Menara Guizardi,Silvina Merenson Pdf

This book explores the dynamics of the "middle-class global rebellion" born of the frustration at declining living standards. Addressing narratives constructed by different social and political agents and groups, it examines contexts of social crisis in Latin America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania, understanding the middle classes as a set of complex and conflicting political relationships. With attention to the manner in which people create "situated habits", consolidating new expectations and desires through a concrete biography, it analyzes continuities and changes in classed self-perceptions based on performative use. With new perspectives, including historical and intersectional approaches, Middle Class Identities and Social Crisis transcends disciplinary boundaries to explore the hybridity of research methods and techniques and challenge established analytical frameworks. It will therefore appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in class and questions of class identity.

Author : Lewis Corey
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Collectivism
ISBN : 9780231099776

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The Crisis of the Middle Class by Lewis Corey Pdf

In the book, Corey theorizes that the crisis confronting the middle class has as its underlying cause the economic paralysis that confronts the world and the inability of government to help master the means of production and distribution.

Author : Modesto Gayo,María Luisa Méndez
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781003803317

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The Politics of the Elite by Modesto Gayo,María Luisa Méndez Pdf

This book is a study of class formation at the top of the social hierarchies during the turbulent and changing early twenty-first century. Contrary to perceptions that privileged individuals exist according to little more than market and economic logics, the book provides evidence that they are by no means absent from politics and civic engagement. Adopting a focus on reproduction, distinction, and politics, it delves into the complex relationship between cohesion and fragmentation that exists within the most privileged groups formed over the course of the contemporary neoliberal period. By knitting a dialogue between spatial analysis, multiple correspondence analysis, and in-depth interviews, the book provides insights into the intricate relations between institutions and political subjectivities, and the role of space and mothering in the political socialisation of Chile’s most privileged families. The result is a dense description of a social class fragmented by subtle ideological lines based upon economic inheritance, socialisation within homogeneous family environments, paths into the labour market, and social and political activities. This book will constitute a much-needed research resource for academics, students, and professionals in areas such as elite studies, social stratification, inequality, social reproduction, accumulation, political socialisation, and contemporary conservative/progressive views.

Author : Daniel J. Walkowitz
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807861202

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Working with Class by Daniel J. Walkowitz Pdf

Polls tell us that most Americans--whether they earn $20,000 or $200,000 a year--think of themselves as middle class. As this phenomenon suggests, "middle class" is a category whose definition is not necessarily self-evident. In this book, historian Daniel Walkowitz approaches the question of what it means to be middle class from an innovative angle. Focusing on the history of social workers--who daily patrol the boundaries of class--he examines the changed and contested meaning of the term over the last one hundred years. Walkowitz uses the study of social workers to explore the interplay of race, ethnicity, and gender with class. He examines the trade union movement within the mostly female field of social work and looks at how a paradigmatic conflict between blacks and Jews in New York City during the 1960s shaped late-twentieth-century social policy concerning work, opportunity, and entitlements. In all, this is a story about the ways race and gender divisions in American society have underlain the confusion about the identity and role of the middle class.

Author : Robert G. Dunn
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816630739

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Identity Crises by Robert G. Dunn Pdf

Significant to Dunn's critique of poststructuralist and postmodern theories is his application of George Herbert Mead as a means of theorizing identity and difference. The focus on postmodernity, rather than postmodernism grounds his analysis of identity and difference both materially and socially.

Author : Maureen O'Dougherty
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2002-02-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822383628

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Consumption Intensified by Maureen O'Dougherty Pdf

Consumption Intensified examines how self-identified middle class Brazilians in São Paulo redefined their class during Brazil’s economic crisis of 1981–1994. With inflation soaring to an astounding 2700 percent, their consumption practices intensified, not only in relation to the national crisis but also to the expanding global consumer culture. Drawing on her observations of everyday practices and on representations of the middle class in popular culture, anthropologist Maureen O’Dougherty explores both the logic and incoherence of middle- to upper-middle-class Brazilian life. With the supports of middle-class living threatened—job security, quality education, home ownership, savings, ease of consumption—the means and meaning of “middle class” were thrown into question. The sector thus redefined itself through both class- and race-based claims of moral and cultural superiority and through privileged consumption, a definition the media underscored by continually addressing middle-class Brazilians as consumers—or rather, as consumers denied. In these times, adults became more flexible in employment, and put stakes in their children’s expensive private education. They engaged in elaborate comparison shopping, stockpiling of goods, and financial strategizing. Ongoing desire for distinction and “first- world” modernity prompted these Brazilians to buy foreign goods through contraband, thereby defying state protectionist policy. Discontented with the constraints of the national economy, they welcomed neoliberalism. By uncovering connections between culture and politics, O’Dougherty complicates understandings of the middle class as a social group and category. Illuminating the intricate relation between identity and local and global consumption, her work will be welcomed by students and scholars in anthropology and Latin American studies, and those interested in consumption, popular culture, politics, and globalization.

Author : Elizabeth Jelin,Renata Motta,Sérgio Costa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351727884

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Global Entangled Inequalities by Elizabeth Jelin,Renata Motta,Sérgio Costa Pdf

This book presents studies from across Latin America to take up the challenge of exploring the plurality of social inequalities from a global perspective. Accordingly, it identifies the structural forces of social inequalities on a world scale as they shape asymmetries observed in a wide array of phenomena, such as racial and gender inequality, urbanization, migration, commodity production, indigenous mobilization, ecological conflicts, and the "new middle class". A rich contribution to the study of the interconnections between the global social structure and multiple local and national hierarchies, Global Entangled Inequalities brings consistently together a variety of conceptual approaches, ranging from ethnographies to legal genealogies, and will therefore appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in social theory, power analysis, intersectionality studies, urban studies, and global social and environmental justice.

Author : Stanley Aronowitz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135205539

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The Politics of Identity by Stanley Aronowitz Pdf

In The Politics of Identity, Stanley Aronowitz offers provocative analysis of the complex interactions of class, politics, and culture. Beginning with the premise that culture is constitutive of class identities, he demonstrates that while feminist analyses of both racial and gay movements have discussed these components of culture, class contributions to cultural identity have yet to be fully examined. In these essays, he uses class as a category for cultural analysis, ranging over issues of ethnicity, race and gender, portrayals of class and culture in the media, as well as a range of other issues related to postmodernism.

Author : Matthew Symonds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 1874097607

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The Culture of Anxiety by Matthew Symonds Pdf

Author : Jeffrey A. Charles
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0252020154

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Service Clubs in American Society by Jeffrey A. Charles Pdf

Placing the clubs in the context of twentieth-century middle-class culture, Charles maintains that they represented the response of locally oriented, traditional middle-class men to societal changes. The groups emerged at a time when service was becoming both a middle-class and a business ideal. As voluntary associations, they represented a shift in organizing rationale, from fraternalism to service. The clubs and their ideology of service were welcome as a unifying force at a time when small cities and towns were beset by economic and population pressures.

Author : Sebastian Herbstreuth
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786739919

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Oil and American Identity by Sebastian Herbstreuth Pdf

American dependence on foreign oil has long been described as a serious threat to U.S. national security, and continues to be a political flashpoint even as domestic fracking eases the US' reliance on imported energy. Oil and American Identity offers a fresh perspective on the subject by reframing 'energy dependency' as a cultural discourse with intimate connections to American views on independence, freedom, consumption, abundance, progress and American exceptionalism. Through a detailed reading of primary literature, Sebastian Herbstreuth also shows how the dangers of foreign oil are linked to American descriptions of foreign oil producers as culturally different und thus 'undependable'. Herbstreuth shows how even reliable imports from the Middle East are portrayed as dangerous and undesirable because this region is particularly 'foreign' from an American point of view, while oil from friendly countries like Canada is cast as a benign form of energy trade. Oil and American Identity rewrites the history of U.S. foreign oil dependence as a cultural history of the United States in the 20th century.

Author : Marion Müller,Patricia Pfeil,Udo Dengel,Lisa Donath
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783658418557

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Identity Under Pressure by Marion Müller,Patricia Pfeil,Udo Dengel,Lisa Donath Pdf

The authors examine identity strategies of middle-class couples who come under pressure of over-indebtedness. Based on biographical interviews collected in a qualitative panel study in three waves, they explore the question of how identity is worked on in the couple and how identity changes when social decline threatens. The theory-generating analysis brings out patterns of coping with over-indebtedness and self-placement described along the notions of 'continuity', 'modification' and 'moratorium'. Similarly, they explore how lifeworlds are constructed in and with over-indebtedness as a couple. This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.

Author : Scott Rode
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006-06-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135519872

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Reading and Mapping Hardy's Roads by Scott Rode Pdf

This book examines Thomas Hardy's representations of the road and the ways the archaeological and historical record of roads inform his work. Through an analysis of the uneven and often competing road signs found within three of his major novels - The Return of the Native, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and Jude the Obscure - and by mapping the road travels of his protagonists, this book argues that the road as represented by Hardy provides a palimpsest that critiques the Victorian construction of social and sexual identities. Balancing modern exigencies with mythic possibilities, Hardy's fictive roads exist as contested spaces that channel desire for middle-class assimilation even as they provide the means both to reinforce and to resist conformity to hegemonic authority.