The New Upper-Middle Class Residential Experience: A Case Study of Apartment Flats in Jordan using the Logics of Burden, Hillier and Hanson

2008 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shatha Malhis
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Upper Middle Class ◽  
Residential Experience

Submerging or Clinging On Again? József Antall, Father and Son, in Hungary after 1956

2005 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
JÁNOS M. RAINE
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Political Practice ◽  
Middle Classes ◽  
Hungarian Society ◽  
Upper Middle Class ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Father And Son

The aim of this case study of the two Antalls, father and son (the latter became the first Hungarian prime minister after the free elections in 1990) is to present and analyse the period that coincided with the post-1956 development of the Kádár system. Its apparent success, efficiency and partial, surrogate, legitimacy has often been explained by the so-called ‘compromise’ of the Kádárist leadership with Hungarian society after 1956, particularly the ‘old intelligentsia’ or ‘old middle classes’. In fact, while there was an obvious continuity in institutions and ideology between the classic Stalinist regime and that of Kádár, the societal and political practice of the system gradually changed. The Antalls were representative of the inter-war upper middle class (the father) and the participants in the 1956 revolution (the son). Discrimination according to their social background, prevalent in the early 1950s, diminished at the turn of the 1960s, so that someone descended from the former Christian middle class, like the younger József Antall, could be recruited into the intelligentsia.

scholarly journals ICTs as the Bullring: A Case Study of the Rainbow Flag Incident in Cairo

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (Summer) ◽  
pp. 80-93
Author(s):  
Lara Mansour
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The State ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Main Role ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Upper Middle Class ◽  
The One

In this paper I am studying an incident that started with a concert in one of Cairo’s upper middle class districts, and ended up with a crackdown on the LGBTIQA++ Community in Egypt. In that incident Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) played a main role of contesting positions and representations of state and LGBTIQA++ persons in Egypt. Through the following lines, I am trying to unfold the intricacies of ICTs usage among both the state apparatuses and representatives of their discourse online on the one hand, and the LGBTIQA++ people and allies narratives. And how is it that this very same space acted as a presence- and forced absence- for both. My study is based on personal interviews with members who were directly involved in these events.

Emerging Markets: Product and Service Opportunities for Middle and Upper Middle Class

2012 ◽  
Vol 601 ◽  
pp. 626-634
Author(s):  
Daria Loi ◽  
Subhashini Ganapathy ◽  
Sasanka Prabhala
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Emerging Markets ◽  
Market Segments ◽  
Middle Classes ◽  
Human Interactions ◽  
Recent Case Study ◽  
Upper Middle Class

The middle and upper middle class population in the often termed emerging markets is typically a less investigated target as most consumer research and development efforts for such markets are primarily focused on rural communities as well as the lower to middle class population. We believe that, in a context where emerging markets are in constant transformation and the middle to upper middle classes are on a substantial growth path, it is important to explore appropriate ways to address these market segments as they represent an opportunity space for technological research and development. This paper discusses and shares results of a recent case study where a number of concepts and products were developed for such market segments in emerging markets and subsequently tested in China, Egypt, India and Brazil. This paper is an extended version of “The rise of middle and upper middle class in emerging markets: Products and service opportunities”, published in Proceedings of the 20th Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interactions: Designing for Habitus and Habitat, OZCHI, 2008 [1].

scholarly journals ‘I Probably Would Never Move, but Ideally Like I’d Love to Move This Week’: Class and Residential Experience, Beyond Elective Belonging

Sociology ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bob Jeffery
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Social Distance ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Economic Capital ◽  
Capital Social ◽  
Historical Processes ◽  
Case Study Site ◽  
Residential Experience

This article critically engages with Savage et al.’s conceptualisation of ‘elective belonging’. Drawing on research in a case study site in central Salford, it argues that historical processes of deindustrialisation, slum clearance and social housing residualisation have been compounded by the subsequent strategies of gentrification and impact upon the forms of ‘belonging’ that can be constructed by marginal working-class people. Correcting for the predominance of research on belonging from the perspective of middle-class incomers, findings are organised around the themes ‘the local/incomer distinction’, ‘perceptions of and orientations to the neighbourhood’, ‘the power of economic capital’, ‘social others and social distance’ and ‘tectonic communities’. It is argued that the privileging of attracting inward investment into such locales necessarily entails that the elective belonging of the privileged is secured at the expense of the prescribed belonging of the marginal.

Some Dilemmas of Political Consumerism

2018 ◽  
pp. 720-740
Author(s):  
Sarah Webb ◽  
Anna Cristina Pertierra
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Environmentally Friendly ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Rural Poor ◽  
Political Consumerism ◽  
Palawan Island ◽  
Class Distinction

In the Philippines, socioeconomic relations that result from deeply uneven market engagements have long made consumption a moral affair. Ecoconscious lifestyles and consumer practices remain largely the domain of elite and middle-class Filipinos, and as such, engagement with sustainable and environmentally friendly consumption may be seen not only as a marker of class distinction but also as a critique of urban and rural poor livelihood practices deemed to be environmentally detrimental. Focusing on a case study from Palawan Island, the chapter discusses some dilemmas that have arisen as the application of “eco” to tourism practices has become widespread and attractive to middle-class Filipinos with steadily growing spending power. The relevance of class to considering dilemmas of political consumerism is not unique to the Philippines, and these issues provide an opportunity to critically reflect on who benefits from political consumerism.

Privilege Accumulation Among Upper Middle-Class Youth in Mexico

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minor Mora-Salas ◽  
Orlandina de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Life Histories ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Economic Resources ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Mexican Families ◽  
Life Trajectories ◽  
Class Background ◽  
Upper Middle Class ◽  
Class Youth

This chapter demonstrates how upper middle-class Mexican families mobilize a vast array of social, cultural, and economic resources to expand their children’s opportunities in life and ensure the intergenerational transmission of their social position. The authors analyze salient characteristics of families’ socioeconomic and demographics in the life histories of a group of young Mexicans from an upper middle-class background. Many believe that micro-social processes, especially surrounding education, are key to understanding how upper-class families mobilize their various resources to shape their children’s life trajectories. These families accumulate social advantages over time that accrue to their progeny and benefit them upon their entrance to the labor market.

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