The France of the Little-Middles (eBook)

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.

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