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Subject(s)

• Upper class—Europe [Browse]
• Middle class—Europe [Browse]
• Professional employees—Europe [Browse]
• Executives—Europe [Browse]

Related name

• Le Galès, Patrick [Browse]
• Moreno Fuentes, Francisco Javier [Browse]

Series

• Studies in Urban and Social Change [More in this series]
• Studies in urban and social change

Summary note

• "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 "-- Provided by publisher.
• "Presents new empirical evidence collected through an original comparative research about professionals and managers in four European cities in three countries"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes

Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.

Language note

English

Contents

• Globalised Minds, Roots in the City: Urban Upper-middle Classes in Europe; Copyright; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Preface; Introduction: Globalisation and the Coming Age of New Barbarians? Upper-Middle Classes in European Cities; Globalisation, Transnationalism and Mobility in European Cities; Does Globalisation Induce 'Exit' Strategies?; Mobility and the Weakening of Local Ties in the Urban Context; Upper-Middle Classes: 'Exit' and Urban Disembeddedness; The 'Partial Exit' and Distance-Proximity Strategies of European Upper-Middle Classes; Structure of the Book; Notes
• Chapter 1 Comparing Upper-Middle-Class Managers in Four Cities: A European Social Group in the Making?Searching for the European Upper-Middle Classes: The Choice of European Managers; Professionalisation, the service class debate and the role of culture; National Patterns in the Rise of Managers: France, Italy and Spain; Managers in Four European Cities: Milan, Madrid, Lyon and Paris; Paris Ile de France: France's highest concentration of managers; Lyon: the rise of France's second city in Europe; Madrid: the pro-market capital of a strongly decentralised Spain
• Milan: Italy's economic and creative capital Selecting Four Neighbourhoods in Each City; Madrid neighbourhoods; Milan neighbourhoods; Lyon neighbourhoods; Paris neighbourhoods; Who Are These European Managers?; Managers as Modernising Agents; Globalisation is good for you: tensions between markets and state; Marked interest for politics; relative trust in the state; Liberal Cultural Values: Managers as Post-Industrial Educated Cultural Species; Cultural values and economic interests: tensions in their support of welfare redistribution and immigration
• Cosmopolitanism, Europeanisation and Multilayered Identities Managers' feelings towards European integration; Beyond Europe; Conclusions; Notes; Chapter 2 Managers in the City: Rooted and in Control-The Game of Distance and Proximity; Combining Distance and Proximity: Interactions under Control; Choosing a City or a Metropolitan Region: Inheritance, Family Ties and Professional Opportunities; Residential mobility with deep roots; Choosing a city: family first, inherited belonging?; Choosing a 'Good' Neighbourhood Close to Family and Friends; Mixed neighbourhood: no romantic choices
• Mixed and central neighbourhoods Mixed and suburban neighbourhoods; No-go areas; Upper-middle-class neighbourhoods: the place to be; Keeping the Social Mix under Control Yet Fearless of the City; More apartments in the centre, more privately owned houses in the suburb, nothing new; Using the city: not much difference between suburban and city-centre inhabitants; Public services: no privatism; School is the exception: intense mobilisation to avoid social mixing; Everyday life: no retreat, using services and enjoying an urban lifestyle; Moving around the city and suburbs
• Conclusion: Managers Choosing a Place to Live-Family Ties, Relative Degree of Mixing and Strict Control

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ISBN

• 1-118-33077-3
• 1-118-33079-X
• 1-118-33078-1

LCCN

2014033902

OCLC

896796347

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