Marion Müller: Identity Under Pressure
Identity Under Pressure
Buch
- Over-Indebtedness in the Middle Class
- Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 10/2023
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, Paperback
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9783658418540
- Bestellnummer: 11640271
- Umfang: 216 Seiten
- Nummer der Auflage: 23001
- Auflage: 1st ed. 2023
- Gewicht: 286 g
- Maße: 210 x 148 mm
- Stärke: 12 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 27.10.2023
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
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.