Middle classes in Africa : changing lives and conceptual challenges /

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Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Kroeker, Lena (Editor), O'Kane, David (Editor), Scharrer, Tabea (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
Series:Frontiers of globalization series.
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505 0 |a Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1: Introduction: Africaâ#x80;#x99;s Middle Classes in Critical Perspective; The Debate about the â#x80;#x98;New Middle Classâ#x80;#x99; in Africa and Its Shortcomings; The â#x80;#x98;Overloaded Classâ#x80;#x99;â#x80;#x94;Assumptions Tied to the â#x80;#x98;New African Middle Classâ#x80;#x99;; The Political Dimension: The Association of Middle Class with Democracy and Stability; The Economic Dimension: Middle-Class Entrepreneurialism; The Dimension of Lifestyle: Modernity as Urbanization, Education, and Demographic Transition; Urbanization; Education; Demographic Change 
505 8 |a Consumerism and Distinct LifestylesUnderstanding Middle Classes in Africa, and Stating the Problem Correctly; References; Part I: Rethinking Concepts of Middle Classes in Africa; 2: Turning the Poor into Something more Inspiring: The Creation of the African Middle Class Controversy; Introduction; The Elusive African Middle Class: An Artificial Controversy; The Middle Class as a Complex and Confusing Object in the Social Sciences; An Uneasy Transfer to African Societies; A Crucial and Controversial Contribution: The African Development Bankâ#x80;#x99;s Report 
505 8 |a The African Middle Class: A Pervasive NotionThe Rise of the African Middle Class: An Incentive to Pay Interest to the Deep Structural Transformations of African Societies; A Persistent, Major, and Changing Urban-Rural Divide; A Three-Tier Society?; References; 3: The Narrative of â#x80;#x98;the African Middle Classâ#x80;#x99; and Its Conceptual Limitations; Introduction; The Debates on â#x80;#x98;Global Middle Classâ#x80;#x99; and â#x80;#x98;African Middle Classâ#x80;#x99;; The Concept of Class in Sociology; Classical Paradigm I: Marx and Followers; Classical Paradigm II: Weber and Weberian Analyses; Pierre Bourdieu 
505 8 |a Class or StratumSocio-Cultural Approaches; Socio-Cultural Analysis in Sociology: Milieu and Lifestyle; A Short Example: Middle Stratum Milieus in Urban Kenya; Conclusion; References; 4: Anthropology and Class in Africa: Challenges of the Past and Present; Introduction; Histories of Social Stratification in Africaâ#x80;#x94;Immigrant Rulers, Kingdoms, and Acephalous Societies; The Landlordâ#x80;#x94;Stranger Dichotomy; Kingdoms, â#x80;#x98;Feudalismsâ#x80;#x99;, and â#x80;#x98;Castesâ#x80;#x99;; Slavery; â#x80;#x98;Egalitarianâ#x80;#x99; Societies; Elites and (Middle) Classes in Africa after 1787 
505 8 |a Questions of Political Structure and Social Stratification in Africa: Anthropological Answers?Anthropological Research on Social Stratification in the 1940s and 1950s; Industrialization and Urbanization in the Northern Rhodesian Copperbelt: The Research of the Manchester School; Stratification and Class; â#x80;#x98;Stratificationâ#x80;#x99; in Africa?; African Scholars and the Question of Class in Post-ÂƯColonial Africa; â#x80;#x98;Cerebral Marxistsâ#x80;#x99; and the Anthropology of Class in 1970s Africa; From Bourdieu to Boundaries 
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