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The New Middle Classes

The New Middle Classes
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 306
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ISBN-10 : 140209938X
ISBN-13 : 9781402099380
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Book Synopsis The New Middle Classes by : Hellmuth Lange

Download or read book The New Middle Classes written by Hellmuth Lange and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-06-10 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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