Reproducing Class: Education, Neoliberalism, and the Rise of the New Middle Class in Istanbul

by Henry J. Rutz and Erol M. Balkan

Book Overview

Middle classes are by definition ambiguous, raising all sorts of paradoxical questions, perceived and real, about their power and place relative to those above and below them in a class-structured society. Focusing on families of the new middle class in Istanbul, the authors of this study address questions about the social construction of middle-class reality in the context of the rapid changes that have come about through recent economic growth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845457803
• ISBN13: 9781845457808
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"