Chapter The 'choice' of a residential location in a peri-urban area: An analysis based on social trajectories
In the 1970s, peri-urban areas became the preferred location of the ‘new middle classes’. Those were the new professions, particularly in the fields of health and education, which appeared with the development of the welfare state. In peri-urban areas they could put into practice a ‘cultural model’...
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| description | In the 1970s, peri-urban areas became the preferred location of the ‘new middle classes’. Those were the new professions, particularly in the fields of health and education, which appeared with the development of the welfare state. In peri-urban areas they could put into practice a ‘cultural model’ based on the living environment, sociability and involvement in local life. In the 1990s, in a transformed economic context, the image of the burgeoning 'middle classes' gave way to that of the downgraded, 'inward-looking' and 'weakened' 'middle classes'. The residential environment appears to constitute a point of stability to offset work uncertainty. Biographical interviews conducted with about forty individuals employed in two peri-urban communes in the Grenoble region which they do not originally come from, show that as a result of their life trajectory they share an ambivalent relationship with the group they belong to, despite diversity of their social positions. Broadly speaking, moving to a peri-urban area can consolidate a 'fragile' social position following upward social mobility that makes a new position uncertain or compensate for an unsatisfactory professional identity in case of a downgrade or interrupted upward mobility. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1561192025-03-07T14:57:48Z Chapter The 'choice' of a residential location in a peri-urban area: An analysis based on social trajectories Debroux, Josette rural sociology rural worlds territory social structure civic participation culture Poland France In the 1970s, peri-urban areas became the preferred location of the ‘new middle classes’. Those were the new professions, particularly in the fields of health and education, which appeared with the development of the welfare state. In peri-urban areas they could put into practice a ‘cultural model’ based on the living environment, sociability and involvement in local life. In the 1990s, in a transformed economic context, the image of the burgeoning 'middle classes' gave way to that of the downgraded, 'inward-looking' and 'weakened' 'middle classes'. The residential environment appears to constitute a point of stability to offset work uncertainty. Biographical interviews conducted with about forty individuals employed in two peri-urban communes in the Grenoble region which they do not originally come from, show that as a result of their life trajectory they share an ambivalent relationship with the group they belong to, despite diversity of their social positions. Broadly speaking, moving to a peri-urban area can consolidate a 'fragile' social position following upward social mobility that makes a new position uncertain or compensate for an unsatisfactory professional identity in case of a downgrade or interrupted upward mobility. 2025-03-07T14:57:47Z 2025-03-07T14:57:47Z 2024 chapter ONIX_20250307_9788383311661_1769 9788383311661 9788383311654 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/156119 fre image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://www.press.uni.lodz.pl/index.php/wul/catalog/book/618 Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego 10.18778/8331-165-4.05 In the 1970s, peri-urban areas became the preferred location of the ‘new middle classes’. Those were the new professions, particularly in the fields of health and education, which appeared with the development of the welfare state. In peri-urban areas they could put into practice a ‘cultural model’ based on the living environment, sociability and involvement in local life. In the 1990s, in a transformed economic context, the image of the burgeoning 'middle classes' gave way to that of the downgraded, 'inward-looking' and 'weakened' 'middle classes'. The residential environment appears to constitute a point of stability to offset work uncertainty. Biographical interviews conducted with about forty individuals employed in two peri-urban communes in the Grenoble region which they do not originally come from, show that as a result of their life trajectory they share an ambivalent relationship with the group they belong to, despite diversity of their social positions. Broadly speaking, moving to a peri-urban area can consolidate a 'fragile' social position following upward social mobility that makes a new position uncertain or compensate for an unsatisfactory professional identity in case of a downgrade or interrupted upward mobility. 10.18778/8331-165-4.05 83bfe9c9-323d-4283-b087-d859fd9af314 9788383311661 9788383311654 65-83 open access |
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