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The Geography of Middle Class Economic Security: Does Location Matter?

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Geography of Middle Class Economic Security: Does Location Matter?/
Author:	Mann, Alexis.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2018,
Description:	248 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-04, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International80-04A.
Subject:	Social research. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10929838
ISBN:	9780438474086

The Geography of Middle Class Economic Security: Does Location Matter?
Mann, Alexis.

The Geography of Middle Class Economic Security: Does Location Matter? - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018 - 248 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-04, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brandeis University, 2018.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

The literature is clear on the pathways and strategies that shape experiences of economically successful families living in places with strong place-based capital. Similarly, studies have powerfully demonstrated how economically vulnerable families are undermined by neighborhoods and communities that are as under resourced as those who live there. This dissertation focused on better understanding how a mismatch in personal and place-based capital overlaps to shape the financial choices and strategies families engage as they work to protect household economic security. Theories of individual and place-based stratification including macroeconomic theory, asset theory, ecological neighborhood effects alongside cultural theories of identity formation and consumption helped to guide the design of this study and interview data from thirty-nine middle class families living in three small postindustrial cities-Portland Maine, Waltham Massachusetts, and Utica New York-were used to respond to the study's research questions. Through a snowball sample beginning with community organizations and leaders middle class families with children across the three cities were interviewed. The sample of urban, middle class families included those that grew up in the city and in migrants. The study's animating questions about place and economic stratification differ from dominate strands of place-based research in so much this dissertation was less concerned with the barriers limiting economic opportunity, than an interest in how families protect economic security and class status. Yet in exploring how middle class families protect against downward economic mobility and how place shapes the financial options and strategies available, this research reinforced prior findings that highlight how the privilege of race (or whiteness) works and is filtered across the type of environments that trap and restrict others. Grounded within a risk and resiliency framework, this study finds that race played a fundamental role in both shaping the broader structural context of economic opportunities embedded within small cities (lower home values alongside the perceived inferiority of local urban public schools) while also influencing the set of choices, and in turn, strategies families could access and leverage (networks of professional ties and extended family wealth). Finally, findings highlight how identity-based consumption patterns helped families to bridge and reconcile contested status between themselves and the city. Actively working to cultivate a distinctly urban middle class identity, the dissertation finds that families engage a set of lifestyle values of preferences to draw symbolic boundaries between themselves and other middle class families, namely those living in the suburbs. A rejection of striving for the best-a bigger house, a newer car, a better school system-helped to legitimize a set of financial strategies and choices many perceive as otherwise inconsistent with a suburban, middle class ideal. Results of this dissertation contribute to a deeper understanding of how individual and place-based capital overlap and interact to shape household economic security. Pushing beyond the traditional place-based literature, which often focuses on state, metro, and neighborhoodlevel dynamics, these findings emphasize the importance of the city a stratifying force.

ISBN: 9780438474086Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122687
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