2014
2014-05-16
10.17192/meta.2014.2.1318
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Struggles of Distinction: Young Women Constructing Their Class Identity in Egypt’s Americanized Milieu
In urban Egypt, class is omnipresent in structuring people's lives and the social sphere as well as being operative in selfdescription. For understanding an individual's position within the horizontally and vertically stratified society, however, the usual distinction of three classes needs to be refined. Based on biographical interviews, I reconstruct what my interviewees consider their "Americanized Society" and try to grasp their self-categorization as upper middle class. In line with much of Bourdieu's thinking on social stratification, I treat their self-positioning as upper middle class as a form of discursive categorization which can only be understood if contextualized by the negative image of "the poor" and "the rich." The Americanized Society, on the other hand, can best be conceptualized as a milieu where different classificatory principles intersect.
Cosmopolitan Capital
Youth
Distinction
Westernization
Upper Middle Class
Milieu
Egypt
Cosmopolitan Capital
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Struggles of Distinction: Young Women Constructing Their Class Identity in Egypt’s Americanized Milieu
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https://doi.org/10.17192/meta.2014.2.1318
Youth
Distinction
Westernization
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Upper Middle Class
2014-05-16
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Milieu
Egypt
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In urban Egypt, class is omnipresent in structuring people's lives and the social sphere as well as being operative in selfdescription. For understanding an individual's position within the horizontally and vertically stratified society, however, the usual distinction of three classes needs to be refined. Based on biographical interviews, I reconstruct what my interviewees consider their "Americanized Society" and try to grasp their self-categorization as upper middle class. In line with much of Bourdieu's thinking on social stratification, I treat their self-positioning as upper middle class as a form of discursive categorization which can only be understood if contextualized by the negative image of "the poor" and "the rich." The Americanized Society, on the other hand, can best be conceptualized as a milieu where different classificatory principles intersect.
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