In Pursuit of Status: The Making of South Korea's New Urban Middle Class (Harvard East Asian Monographs)

In Pursuit of Status: The Making of South Korea's New Urban Middle Class (Harvard East Asian Monographs)

by Denise Potrzeba Lett (Author)

Synopsis

Denise Lett argues that South Korea's contemporary urban middle class not only exhibits upper-class characteristics, but also has a culturally inherited disposition to seek high status. Combined with a favourable political and economic climate, many Koreans have thus been able to achieve it.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 270
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 01 Mar 2002

ISBN 10: 0674007816
ISBN 13: 9780674007819