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Identity Under Pressure : Over-Indebtedness in the Middle Class / by Marion Müller, Patricia Pfeil, Udo Dengel, Lisa Donath

Pfeil, Patricia [Verfasserin/Verfasser] ; Dengel, Udo [Verfasserin/Verfasser] ; Donath, Lisa [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

1st ed. 2023.

Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden [2023.] ; Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer [2023.], 2023

1 Online-Ressource(XI, 203 p. 3 illus.)

Englisch

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978-3-658-41855-7

978-3-658-41854-0 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-3-658-41856-4 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

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Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1007/978-3-658-41855-7

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LOC-SH: Social structure. ; Equality. ; Quality of life. ; Welfare state. ; Human rights. ; Sociology. ; Social groups. ; Philosophy of mind. ; Self.

Middle class as the study group -- Identity/identity work -- Research process and methodological procedure -- Identity work strategies in the course of over-indebtedness/insolvency -- Crisis of identity - exemplary case descriptions -- Lonely or together? Lifeworld of couples in over-indebtedness -- Concluding remarks and review of results -- Appendices.

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The authors examine identity strategies of middle-class couples who come under pressure of over-indebtedness. Based on biographical interviews collected in a qualitative panel study in three waves, they explore the question of how identity is worked on in the couple and how identity changes when social decline threatens. The theory-generating analysis brings out patterns of coping with over-indebtedness and self-placement described along the notions of 'continuity', 'modification' and 'moratorium'. Similarly, they explore how lifeworlds are constructed in and with over-indebtedness as a couple. The authors Dr. Marion Müller is Managing Director of the sine Institute, Munich. Prof. Dr. Patricia Pfeil teaches at the University of Applied Sciences Kempten and is a founding member of the sine Institute, Munich. Dr. Udo Dengel, Fulda University of Applied Sciences is a research associate at Fulda University of Applied Sciences and the sine Institute, Munich. Lisa Donath works as managing director of the sine-Institute, Munich. This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.