The France of the little-middles : a suburban housing development in greater Paris /

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The Poplars housing development in suburban Paris is home to what one resident called the 'Little-Middles' ' a social group on the tenuous border between the working- and middle- classes. In the 1960s The Poplars was a site of upward social mobility, which fostered an egalitarian sens...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Cartier, Marie (Author), Coutant, Isabelle (Author), Masclet, Olivier (Author), Siblot, Yasmine (Author)
Other Authors: Rogers, Juliette Radcliffe (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Francés
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, [2019]
Edition:English-language edition.
Series:Anthropology of Europe (Series) ; v. 1.
Subjects:
Suburbs > France > Gonesse.
Suburban life > France > Gonesse.
Middle class > France > Gonesse.
Banlieues > France > Gonesse.
Vie de la banlieue > France > Gonesse.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
Middle class
Social conditions
Suburban life
Suburbs
Soziale Klasse
Kleinbürger
Migrationshintergrund
Soziale Mobilität
Gemeinschaftsgefühl
Gonesse (France) > Social conditions.
France > Gonesse
Frankreich
Paris > Region
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The "good old days"
  • Children of the projects in quest of respectability
  • Suburban youth
  • "They're very nice, but ... ": encountering new foreign neighbors
  • A vote of the white lower classes?

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