The France of the Little-Middles (eBook)

A Suburban Housing Development in Greater Paris

Marie Cartier, Isabelle Coutant, Olivier Masclet, Yasmine Siblot (Autoren)

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2016
224 Seiten
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78533-229-6 (ISBN)

Infos

The Poplars housing development in suburban Paris is home to what one resident called the "e;Little-Middles"e; - a social group on the tenuous border between the working- and middle- classes. In the 1960s The Poplars was a site of upward social mobility, which fostered an egalitarian sense of community among residents. This feeling of collective flourishing was challenged when some residents moved away, selling their homes to a new generation of upwardly mobile neighbors from predominantly immigrant backgrounds. This volume explores the strained reception of these migrants, arguing that this is less a product of racism and xenophobia than of anxiety about social class and the loss of a sense of community that reigned before.

Autoren

Olivier Masclet is Associate Professor at Paris Descartes Sorbonne Paris Cité and a researcher at the Center for Research on Social Connections since 2006. His research focuses on the cultural dimensions of class differentiation today and contemporary working-class lifestyles.

Isabelle Coutant is Researcher at CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research), based at IRIS (Interdisciplinary Research Institute on Social Issues). Her research concerns working-class relationships with institutions.

Yasmine Siblot is Professor of Sociology at the University of Paris 8, and is member of the research center CRESPPA-CSU (Urban Societies and Cultures) (CNRS-University of Paris 8). Her research interests lie in social class and political sociology.

Marie Cartier is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Nantes, Researcher at CENS (Nantes Sociology Center, CNRS-University of Nantes), and Junior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France since 2010. She uses ethnographic methods to study the working-class through the lenses of employment and living spaces.

Inhalt

Illustrations, Tables, and Maps
Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. The “Good Old Days”
Chapter 2. Children of the projects in quest of respectability
Chapter 3. Suburban Youth
Chapter 4. “They’re very nice, but…”: Encountering new foreign neighbors
Chapter 5. A vote of the white lower classes?

Appendices
Appendix I: Interviews cited in the book
Appendix II: Documents and sources

Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.8.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Anthropology of Europe
• Reihe/Serie: Anthropology of Europe
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Sociology • Sociology, Anthropology (General), Urban Studies
• ISBN-10: 1-78533-229-5 / 1785332295
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78533-229-6 / 9781785332296