Privilege and Anxiety - Hagen Koo

Privilege and Anxiety

The Korean Middle Class in the Global Era

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Buch | Hardcover
162 Seiten
2022
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-6491-2 (ISBN)
134,65 inkl. MwSt
In Privilege and Anxiety, Hagen Koo examines what has happened to the Korean middle class in the era of neoliberal globalization and demonstrates that global economic change brought more profound changes than mere economic decline and shrinking size to this class.


Globalization has inserted an axis of polarization into the middle class, separating a small minority that benefits from the globalized economy from the large majority that suffers from it. This internal differentiation generates a challenging dynamic within Korean society, as the newly affluent seek to distinguish themselves from the rest of the middle class to establish a new, privileged class position. Privilege and Anxiety explores how these tensions play out in three areas: consumption and lifestyle, residential differentiation, and education. In all three areas, the dominant orientation of the affluent middle class is to preserve their newfound privilege and to pass it onto their children. Their new class practices, Koo argues, bring great anxiety to both the winners and losers of neoliberal globalization.

Hagen Koo is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa. He is the author of Korean Workers.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 1 Maps; 13 Charts
Verlagsort Ithaca
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 454 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10 1-5017-6491-8 / 1501764918
ISBN-13 978-1-5017-6491-2 / 9781501764912
Zustand Neuware
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