Upper Middle Class Social Reproduction Wealth, Schooling, and Residential Choice in Chile /

• Main Authors: Méndez, María Luisa (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Gayo, Modesto (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Social structure.; Social inequality.; Latin America-Economic conditions.; Social sciences-Philosophy.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.; Latin American and Caribbean Economics.; Social Theory.

In the contemporary context of increasing inequality and various forms of segregation, this volume analyzes the transition to neoliberal politics in Santiago de Chile. Using an innovative methodological approach that combines georeferenced data and multi-stage cluster analysis, Méndez and Gayo stud...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Social Mobility over Time and in Space: Ascending Residential and Social
• 3. Common Ground: On the Centrality of Residential and School Choice
• 4. Frantic Lives and Practices of Socio-Cultural Differentiation
• 5. Neither Conservatives nor Progressives: Fragmentation in the Cultural Repertoires of the Upper Middle Class
• 6. Inheritors, Achievers, and Incomers: Wrapping up a Multidimensional Approach to Social Reproduction. .