Privilege and Anxiety : The Korean Middle Class in the Global Era /

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"Privilege and Anxiety is about the transformation of the Korean middle class over the past four decades. The Korean middle class grew rapidly during the period of industrial development and provided a social base for the political stability and democratic transition in the 1980s. But it began...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Koo, Hagen, 1941- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Middle class > Economic conditions.
Income distribution > Social aspects.
Revenu > Repartition > Aspect social > Coree.
Income distribution > Social aspects > Korea.
Middle class > Korea > Economic conditions > 21st century.
Middle class > Korea > Economic conditions > 20th century.
Korea.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The fractured middle
  • The rise and fall of the Korean middle class
  • Rising inequality
  • Consumption and class distinction
  • Class making, Gangnam style
  • Educational class struggle
  • In pursuit of global education.

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