Overview
- Insights into dealing with and responding to over-indebtedness and insolvency
- Strategies for maintaining middle class membership
- First implementation of a qualitative longitudinal study in this target group
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Dr. Marion Müller is managing Director of the sine Institute, Munich.
Prof. Dr. Patricia Pfeil teaches at the University of Applied Sciences Kempten and is a founding member of the sine Institute, Munich.
Dr. Udo Dengel, Fulda University of Applied Sciences, is a research associate at Fulda University of Applied Sciences and the sine Institute, Munich.
Lisa Donath works as managing director of the sine-Institute, Munich.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Identity Under Pressure
Book Subtitle: Over-Indebtedness in the Middle Class
Authors: Marion Müller, Patricia Pfeil, Udo Dengel, Lisa Donath
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-41855-7
Publisher: Springer Wiesbaden
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-41854-0Published: 27 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-41855-7Published: 26 October 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 203
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social Structure, Social Inequality, Quality of Life Research, Politics of the Welfare State, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Self and Identity