ISBN:
1402099371
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (3088 KB, 309 S.)
Edition:
1. Aufl.
Parallel Title:
Print version The New Middle Classes
DDC:
305.55
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Mittelstand
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Internationaler Vergleich
Abstract:
The new middle classes of developing countries are held responsible for boosting extremely resource-intensive lifestyles beyond the OECD-world thus thwarting ongoing efforts to attain a more sustainable future. But how homogeneous are their consumption patterns and why should not globalization include the extension of environmental concern, too? 'The New Middle Classes' challenges a narrow understanding of lifestyles and consumption by analyzing the issue not only in terms of attitudes and preferences but of socio-economic features and governmental policies, too. Original contributions from internationally renowned researchers bring fresh multidisciplinary insights in both theoretical and empirical respect. 'The New Middle Classes' will be of interest mainly to sociologists, political scientists, human geographers, and anthropologists.
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; About the Authors; 1 Who are the New Middle Classes and why are they Given so Much Public Attention?; Part I Modernities, Globalization and Consumption; 2 Convergence and Divergence in Societal Modernization: Global trends, Regional Variations, and Some Implications for Sustainability; 3 Consumerist Lifestyles in the Context of Globalization: Investigating Scenarios of Homogenization, Diversification and Hybridization; 4 Who are the Globalizers? The Role of Education and Educational Elites
Description / Table of Contents:
5 Provider Strategies and the Greening of Consumption Practices: Exploring the Role of Companies in Sustainable Consumption6 From Small Objects to Cars: Consumption Expansion in East Asia; Part II New Middle Classes in China, Brazil, Ecuador and Israel; 7 Rising Capitalism, Emerging Middle-Classes and Environmental Perspectives in China: A Weberian Approach; 8 Globalization of Lifestyle: Golfing in China; 9 Who are the Knowledge Workers of Campinas, SP, Brazil and how do they Live? Local Impacts of Global Trends
Description / Table of Contents:
10 Sustainability of a Life M0s C0modo? Agricultural Change, Remaking Families, and the Emerging Indigenous Middle Class in the Ecuadorian Andes11 New Middle Class and Environmental Lifestyle in Israel; Part III New Middle Classes in India; 12 The Political Economy of Lifestyle: Consumption, India0s New Middle Class and State-Led Development; 13 0Environmentality0 in the Neoliberal City: Attitudes, Governance and Social Justice; 14 India0s 0New Middle Class0 and the Globalising City: Software Professionals in Bangalore, India
Description / Table of Contents:
15 The Changing Food Scenario and the Middle Classes in the Emerging Megacity of Hyderabad, India16 Highly Qualified Employees in Bangalore, India: Consumerist Predators?; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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