In Pursuit of Status: The Making of South Korea's New Urban Middle Class: No. 170 (Harvard East Asian Monographs) - Hardcover

Lett, Denise Potrzeba

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ISBN 10: 0674445953 ISBN 13: 9780674445956

Verlag: Harvard University Press, 1998

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Book by Lett Denise Potrzeba

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Denise Lett's study of South Korea's urban middle class...highlights the powerful role culture has played in South Korea's emergence as a global economic power. Lett's core argument is that South Koreans possess an 'underlying drive' to attain social status, and that this has been a 'force behind the development of South Korea's human resources in general, of its new middle class in particular, and ultimately of South Korea itself'...She backs her argument by analyzing South Korea's urban middle class in the areas of occupation, family, lifestyle, education, and marriage, and comparing her findings with practices in the yangban era.--James Adam "Japan Times "

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In this ethnography of the everyday life of contemporary Korea, Denise Lett argues that South Korea's contemporary urban middle class not only exhibits upper-class characteristics but also that this reflects a culturally inherited disposition of Koreans to seek high status. This has combined with a favourable political and economic climate that has made it possible for many to achieve it. Lett shows how the Confucian legacy - especially the yangban tradition - has been a driving force behind the development of South Korea's new middle class and the country's rapid emergence as a global economic player. Lett shows that Koreans have adopted traditional ways of asserting high status to modern life, and analyzes strategies for claiming high status in terms of occupation, family, lifestyle, education, and marriage.

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• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0674445953
• ISBN 13: 9780674445956
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272