{"product_id":"we-have-never-been-middle-class-how-social-mobility-misleads-us","title":"We Have Never Been Middle Class: How Social Mobility Misleads Us","description":"Taking apart the ideology of the \"middle class\"\n\nTidings of a shrinking middle class in one part of the world and its expansion in another absorb our attention, but seldom do we question the category itself. We Have Never Been Middle Class proposes that the middle class is an ideology. Tracing this ideology up to the age of financialization, it exposes the fallacy in the belief that we can all ascend or descend as a result of our aspirational and precautionary investments in property and education. Ethnographic accounts from Germany, Israel, the USA and elsewhere illustrate how this belief orients us, in our private lives as much as in our politics, toward accumulation-enhancing yet self-undermining goals. This original meshing of anthropology and critical theory elucidates capitalism by way of its archetypal actors.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1788733916\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.1788733916.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Weiss, Hadas\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Pages are clean with no markings. May show minor signs of wear or cosmetic defects  marks, cuts, bends, or scuffs  on the cover, spine, pages, or dust jacket. May have remainder marks on edges.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41717428092986,"sku":"DBV.1788733916.VG","price":8.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1788733916-0.jpg?v=1790910752","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/we-have-never-been-middle-class-how-social-mobility-misleads-us","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}