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Consumption and Social Change in a Post-Soviet Middle Class

Consumption and Social Change in a Post-Soviet Middle Class

Patico, Jennifer

Hardcover

AnthropologyPoverty & Social Work

ISBN10: 0804700699
ISBN13: 9780804700696
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Jul 23 2008
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

What happens when your once-dignified profession no longer supports a dignified lifestyle? In 1990s St. Petersburg, teachers had to find out the hard way. Although the institutions and ideologies of Soviet life situated them as cultured consumers, contemporary processes of marketization and privatization left them unable to attain what they now considered to be respectable material standards of living. In this fascinating new ethnographic study, Patico examines the various ways in which teachers have adjusted their activities and interactions as consumers, demonstrating how this has led to dramatic shifts in their assessments of their own lives and of the society around them.

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