ISBN: 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 characterist… More...

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. Denise Potrzeba Lett, Books, Social and Cultural Studies, In Pursuit of Status: The Making of South Korea's New Urban Middle Class Books>Social and Cultural Studies, Harvard<

2002, ISBN: 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 als… More...

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. Buch (fremdspr.) Denise Potrzeba Lett Taschenbuch, Harvard University Press, 01.03.2002, Harvard University Press, 2002<

ISBN: 9780674007819

Paperback, [PU: Harvard University, Asia Center], In this ethnography of the everyday life of contemporary Korea, Denise Lett argues that South Korea's contemporary urban middle class not… More...

Paperback, [PU: Harvard University, Asia Center], 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., Social Classes<

ISBN: 9780674007819

Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Asia center/Harvard Univ. Press, 1998. 256pp. Harvard East Asian Monographs, 170. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Paperback. New., Harvard Uni… More...

Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Asia center/Harvard Univ. Press, 1998. 256pp. Harvard East Asian Monographs, 170. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Paperback. New., Harvard Univ. Asia center/Harvard Univ. Press, 1998, 6<