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Urban Middle Class (urban + middle_class)

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Humanities and Social Sciences100%

Selected Abstracts

In Pursuit of Status: The Making of South Korea's "New" Urban Middle Class

AMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST, Issue 2 2000
Kyung-Koo Han
In Pursuit of Status: The Making of South Korea's "New" Urban Middle Class. Denise Potrzeba Lett. Cambridge, MA; Harvard University Asia Center, 1998. vii. 256 pp., references, index. [source]

The Rise of Kenyan Supermarkets and the Evolution of their Horticulture Product Procurement Systems

DEVELOPMENT POLICY REVIEW, Issue 6 2004
David Neven
Supermarkets are rapidly penetrating urban food retail in Kenya and spreading well beyond their initially tiny market niche among the urban middle class into the food markets of lower-income groups. Having penetrated processed and staple food markets much earlier and faster than fresh foods, they have recently begun to make inroads into the fresh fruits and vegetables category. Supermarkets in Kenya already buy about half the volume of produce exported, and thus represent a significant new ,dynamic market' opportunity for farmers. The important changes in their procurement systems bring significant opportunities and challenges for small farmers, and have implications for agricultural diversification and rural development programmes and policies. [source]

Companionate marriage in India: the changing marriage system in a middle-class Brahman subcaste

THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE, Issue 4 2008
C.J. Fuller
The Eighteen-Village Vattimas are a Tamil Brahman subcaste. They were formerly rural landlords, but today they mostly belong to the urban middle class. In recent decades, the Vattimas' marriage system has changed markedly. Child marriage has ended and the age of marriage has since risen further. Close-kin marriage is no longer preferred, although subcaste endogamy remains the norm. Nevertheless, the education and employment of individuals, and their personal compatibility, have now become crucial criteria, and young men and women are involved in arranging their own marriages. Among the Vattimas (like other Indians), a form of arranged, endogamous companionate marriage has now developed, which plays a fundamental role in reproducing both caste and the middle class in contemporary India. Résumé Les Vattimas des Dix-huit Villages forment une sous-caste de brahmanes tamouls. Ces anciens propriétaires terriens ruraux sont aujourd'hui pour la plupart intégrés à la middle class urbaine. Depuis quelques dizaines d'années, leur système matrimonial a considérablement évolué. On ne marie plus les enfants et l'âge du mariage ne cesse de reculer. Le mariage entre proches parents n'est plus privilégié, bien que l'endogamie au sein de la sous-caste reste la norme. En tout état de cause, l'éducation, l'occupation professionnelle et la compatibilité personnelle des futurs époux sont devenus des critères essentiels, et les jeunes gens des deux sexes s'impliquent dans l'arrangement de leur propre mariage. Parmi les Vattimas, comme chez d'autres Indiens, on voit apparaître une forme d'endogamie arrangée, qui joue un rôle fondamental dans la reproduction de la caste aussi bien que de la classe moyenne dans l'Inde contemporaine. [source]