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Subject(s)

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

Author

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

Series

Studies in urban and social change [More in this series]

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.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• Machine generated contents note: 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
• 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
• National Patterns in the Rise of Managers: France, Italy and Spain
• Managers in Four European Cities: Milan, Madrid, Lyon and Paris
• Selecting Four Neighbourhoods in Each City
• Who Are These European Managers?
• Managers as Modernising Agents
• Liberal Cultural Values: Managers as Post-Industrial Educated Cultural Species
• Cosmopolitanism, Europeanisation and Multilayered Identities
• Conclusions.
• Contents note continued: 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
• Choosing a 'Good' Neighbourhood Close to Family and Friends
• Keeping the Social Mix under Contrail Yel Fearless of the City
• Conclusion: Managers Choosing a Place to Live---Family Ties, Relative Degree of Mixing and Strict Control
• 3. Three Ways of Living in a Globalised World: Transnationalism as a Cleavage Among European Managers
• Mobility, Transnationalism and Social Differentiation
• Living Abroad: A Dividing Line Among Managers
• Professional Partial Exit Strategies: Going Abroad arid Coming Hack
• The Most Common Form of Transnational Mobility: Short-Term and Short-Distance
• A Western-Centric- World
• Virtual Mobility for 'Digital Nomads'
• Contents note continued: The World Is Becoming Increasingly More Competitive: Children Must Be Ready
• Rootedness as the Other Side of Mobility: Cross-Classifying Transnational Practices and Rootedness
• Conclusions: Transnationalisation Under Shelter?
• 4. Managers' Social Networks: Whatever the Scale, Whatever the City, 'Birds of a Feather Flock Together'
• Managers' Friends: Spatially Dispersed but Intensely Socially Homogeneous
• Family and the City: A Recovered Relation
• Neighbours: Who Are Those Strangers?
• Family and Friends, but No Engagement in the Public Sphere
• Conclusions: Dense Social Networks Abroad and in the City
• 5. Conclusion: Globalisation and Selective Rootedness in the City
• A European Urban 'Modernist' Upper-Middle Class: Values, Networks of Friends and European Mobility hut the Future Is Global
• Transnational Mobility as Partial Exit: Mobility and Society
• Transnational Mobility as a New Cleavage Among the Upper-Middle Classes.
• Contents note continued: Globalisation and Selective Rootedness, Not Cosmopolitan Versus Locals: Managers Settled Among Families and Friends
• What Do We Learn from the Comparison?
• The Future of Urban Europeans?

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ISBN

• 9781444334845 ((hardback))
• 1444334840 ((hardback))
• 9781444334852 ((paper))
• 1444334859 ((paper))

LCCN

^^2014031689

OCLC

861209564

RCP

H - S

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