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THE NEW MIDDLE CLASSES
GLOBALIZING LIFESTYLES, CONSUMERISM AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN |
| By: |
Hellmuth Lange (Editor), Lars Meier (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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£129.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
9048182247 |
| ISBN 13: |
9789048182244 |
| Publisher: |
SPRINGER |
| Pub. date: |
6 November, 2010 |
| Edition: |
Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009 |
| Pages: |
306 |
| Description: |
This book analyzes the middle class in terms of attitudes and preferences as well as socio-economic features and governmental policies. It provides original contributions from internationally renowned researchers that bring fresh multidisciplinary insights. |
| Synopsis: |
With respect to the developing and threshold economies, it is no longer the poor who are the only focus of media attention. Today, the new middle classes are about to take centre stage, too. With their lifestyles and attitudes, the new middle classes are considered to be both the products as well as the promoters of globalization. They are a highly heterogeneousgroup in socio-economicterms as well as in habits 1 and preferences, including their societal role as consumers and citizens. The ?rst wave of scholarly and political attention can be traced back to the mid-nineties. The focal point was surprise and unease about indubitable symptoms of consumerism which, until then had been seen as a characteristic of the richest western societies. However, since the nineties, consumerism has run rampant in - velopingcountriestoo.Thishasparticularlybeennotedwithrespecttotheemerging middle classes in South East Asia. The "will to consume seemed inexhaustible, and appetites insatiable. This rage to consume [...] was both celebrated and feared by political leadersand other social/moralgatekeepers,who beganto condemnthe p- cess as 'Westernization' and even 'westoxi?cation"' (Chua 2000: xii).Ever since, the debate about the lifestyles of the new middle classes and their role in society has gained momentum. |
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biography |
| Publication: |
Netherlands |
| Imprint: |
Springer |
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