Comparative Project on Class Structure and Class Consciousness: Core and Country-Specific Files

1990 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik Olin, et al. Wright
Keyword(s):  
Class Consciousness ◽  
Class Structure ◽  
Country Specific

scholarly journals The Moral Boundary Drawing of Class: Social Inequality and Young Precarious Workers in Poland and Germany

Sociology ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 003803852098579
Author(s):  
Vera Trappmann ◽  
Alexandra Seehaus ◽  
Adam Mrozowicki ◽  
Agata Krasowska
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Class Structure ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
Economic Wealth ◽  
Youth Transition ◽  
Country Specific

This article explores the relational and moral aspects of the perception of class structure and class identifications by young people in objectively vulnerable labour market conditions in Poland and Germany. Drawing on 123 biographical interviews with young people in both countries, it demonstrates that young precarious Poles and Germans tend to identify themselves against the ‘middle class’ – understood variously in the two countries – and attribute the sources of economic wealth and social status in their societies to individual merits and entrepreneurship. Positioning oneself in the broad middle and limited identification with the precariat is explained by the youth transition phase, country-specific devaluation of class discourses and the effects of individualisation.

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