In Pursuit of Status: The Making of South Korea's "New" Urban Middle Class (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780674007819)

In this ethnography of the everyday life of contemporary Korea, Denise Lett argues that South Korea's contemporary urban middle class not only exhibits upper-class characteristics but also that this reflects a culturally inherited disposition of Koreans to seek high status. Lett shows that Koreans have adapted traditional ways of asserting high status to modern life, and analyzes strategies for claiming high status in terms of occupation, family, lifestyle, education, and marriage.

The Harvard-Hallym Series on Korean Studies, published by the Harvard Council on East Asian Studies, is supported by the Korean Institute of Harvard and Hallym University in Korea. The series is committed to the publication of outstanding new scholarly work on Korea, regardless of discipline, in both the humanities and the social sciences.

Author: Denise Potrzeba Lett
ISBN-10: 0674007816
ISBN-13: 9780674007819
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/30/2002
Pages: 270
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.06h x 5.92w x 0.70d