Identity under Pressure Over-Indebtedness in the Middle Class |
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Author:
| Müller, Marion Pfeil, Patricia Dengel, Udo Donath, Lisa |
ISBN: | 978-3-658-41854-0 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2023 |
Publisher: | Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH
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Imprint: | Springer |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $89.99 |
Book Description:
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The authors examine identity strategies of middle-class couples who come under pressure of over-indebtedness. Based on biographical interviews collected in a qualitative panel study in three waves, they explore the question of how identity is worked on in the couple and how identity changes when social decline threatens. The theory-generating analysis brings out patterns of coping with over-indebtedness and self-placement described along the notions of 'continuity', 'modification'...
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The authors examine identity strategies of middle-class couples who come under pressure of over-indebtedness. Based on biographical interviews collected in a qualitative panel study in three waves, they explore the question of how identity is worked on in the couple and how identity changes when social decline threatens. The theory-generating analysis brings out patterns of coping with over-indebtedness and self-placement described along the notions of 'continuity', 'modification' and 'moratorium'. Similarly, they explore how lifeworlds are constructed in and with over-indebtedness as a couple.
This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.