We Have Never Been Middle Class - How Social Mobility Misleads Us

Informationen zum Autor Hadas Weiss is an anthropologist based at the Madrid Institute for Advanced Study Klappentext Tidings of a shrinking middle class in one part of the world and its expansion in another absorb our attention, but seldom do we question the category itself. We Have Never Been Middle Class proposes that the middle class is an ideology. Tracing this ideology up to the age of financialisation, it exposes the fallacy in the belief that we can all ascend or descend as a result of our aspirational and precautionary investments in property and education. Ethnographic accounts from Germany, Israel, the United States and elsewhere illustrate how this belief orients us, in our private lives as much as in our politics, toward accumulation-enhancing yet self-undermining goals. This meshing of anthropology and critical theory elucidates capitalism by way of its archetypal actors. Zusammenfassung Taking apart the ideology of the "middle class"

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Hadas Weiss is an anthropologist based at the Madrid Institute for Advanced Study

Product details

• Authors: Hadas Weiss
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.10.2019
• EAN: 9781788733915
• ISBN: 978-1-78873-391-5
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Wirtschaftspolitik, Politikwissenschaft, Schicht (soziologisch), Kulturanthropologie, Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie, Soziale Mobilität, Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie, Soziale Schichten, Populärkultur, Politik / Politikwissenschaft, Politologie, Anthropologie / Kulturanthropologie, Trivialkultur