Marion Müller, Patricia Pfeil, Udo Dengel

Identity Under Pressure

Over-Indebtedness in the Middle Class

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Produktbeschreibung

The authors examine identity strategies of middle-class couples who come under pressure of over-indebtedness. Based on biographical interviews collected in a qualitative panel study in three waves, they explore the question of how identity is worked on in the couple and how identity changes when social decline threatens. The theory-generating analysis brings out patterns of coping with over-indebtedness and self-placement described along the notions of 'continuity', 'modification' and 'moratorium'. Similarly, they explore how lifeworlds are constructed in and with over-indebtedness as a couple.

This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-658-41854-0
• 1st ed. 2023
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 286g
• ISBN-13: 9783658418540
• ISBN-10: 3658418540
• Artikelnr.: 67880470

Autorenporträt

Dr. Marion Müller is managing Director of the sine Institute, Munich. Prof. Dr. Patricia Pfeil teaches at the University of Applied Sciences Kempten and is a founding member of the sine Institute, Munich. Dr. Udo Dengel, Fulda University of Applied Sciences, is a research associate at Fulda University of Applied Sciences and the sine Institute, Munich. Lisa Donath works as managing director of the sine-Institute, Munich.

Inhaltsangabe

Middle class as the study group.- Identity/identity work.- Research process and methodological procedure.- Identity work strategies in the course of over-indebtedness/insolvency.- Crisis of identity - exemplary case descriptions.- Lonely or together? Lifeworld of couples in over-indebtedness.- Concluding remarks and review of results.- Appendices.

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Middle class as the study group.- Identity/identity work.- Research process and methodological procedure.- Identity work strategies in the course of over-indebtedness/insolvency.- Crisis of identity - exemplary case descriptions.- Lonely or together? Lifeworld of couples in over-indebtedness.- Concluding remarks and review of results.- Appendices.