We Have Never Been Middle Class: How Social Mobility Misleads Us
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We Have Never Been Middle Class: How Social Mobility Misleads Us
Author: Hadas Weiss
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9781788733915
Weight: 280 gsm
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Price: RM89
Taking apart the ideology of the “middle classâ€
Tidings of a shrinking middle class in one part of the world and its expansion in another absorb our attention, but seldom do we question the category itself. We Have Never Been Middle Class proposes that the middle class is an ideology. Tracing this ideology up to the age of financialisation, it exposes the fallacy in the belief that we can all ascend or descend as a result of our aspirational and precautionary investments in property and education. Ethnographic accounts from Germany, Israel, the United States and elsewhere illustrate how this belief orients us, in our private lives as much as in our politics, toward accumulation-enhancing yet self-undermining goals. This meshing of anthropology and critical theory elucidates capitalism by way of its archetypal actors.