Globalised Minds, Roots in the City

Urban Upper–middle Classes in Europe

Alberta Andreotti, Patrick Le Galès, Francisco Javier Moreno–Fuentes (Autoren)

Software / Digital Media

264 Seiten

2014
John Wiley & Sons Inc (Hersteller)
978-1-118-33079-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Globalised Minds, Roots in the City utilises empirical evidence from four European cities to explore the role of urban upper middle classes in the transformations experienced by contemporary European societies. * Presents new empirical evidence collected through an original comparative research about professionals and managers in four European cities in three countries * Features an innovative combination of approaches, methods, and techniques in its analyses of European post-national societies * Reveals how segments of Europe s urban population are adopting exit or partial exit strategies in respect to the nation state * Utilises approaches from classic urban sociology, globalization and mobility studies, and spatial class analysis * Includes in depth interviews, social networking techniques, and classic questions of political representation and values

Autor

Alberta Andreotti is Research Fellow in Economic Sociology at the Department of Sociology at the University of Milan-Bicocca and Associate member of the Cities Are Back in Town research group, based at Sciences Po, Paris. Patrick Le Gales is CNRS Research Professor of Politics and Sociology at Sciences Po Paris, Centre d etudes Europeennes and Co-Chair of the Cities Are Back in Town research group. Francisco Javier Moreno Fuentes is Research Fellow at the Institute of Public Goods and Policies (IPP-CSIC).

Inhalt

Front Matter (pages i xi) Introduction (pages 1 14) Chapter 1 Comparing Upper-Middle-Class Managers in Four Cities (pages 15 59) Chapter 2 Managers in the City (pages 60 106) Chapter 3 Three Ways of Living in a Globalised World (pages 107 148) Chapter 4 Managers Social Networks (pages 149 172) Conclusion (pages 173 188) Bibliography (pages 189 207) Methodological Appendix (pages 208 212) Questionnaire (pages 213 240) Index (pages 241 245)

Produkt-Details

• Reihe/Serie: IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 250 mm
• Gewicht: 666 g
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• ISBN-10: 1-118-33079-X / 111833079X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-33079-1 / 9781118330791
• Zustand: Neuware