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In Pursuit of Status: The Making of South Korea's "New" Urban Middle Class (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
In Pursuit of Status The Making of South Korea's New Urban Middle Class - Harvard East Asian Monographs Author:Denise Potrzeba Lett The members of South Korea's middle class define themselves by the choices they make about occupation, family, lifestyle, education, and marriage. Lett examines each of these to show how the middle class has adapted traditional ways of asserting status to modern life. "[This] is perhaps the best introduction to contemporary Korea's social strati... more »fication and urban life that has been published in English." --American Ethnologist« less