Globalised Minds, Roots in the City: Urban Upper-middle Classes in Europe [Hardcover]

Globalised Minds, Roots in the City utilises empirical evidence from four European cities to explore the role of urban upper middle classes in the transformations experienced by contemporary European societies.?

• Presents new empirical evidence collected through an original comparative research about professionals and managers in four European cities in three countries
• Features an innovative combination of approaches, methods, and techniques in its analyses of European post-national societies
• Reveals how segments of Europes? urban population are adopting exit or partial exit strategies in respect to the nation state
• Utilises approaches from classic urban sociology, globalization and mobility studies, and spatial class analysis
• Includes in depth interviews, social networking techniques, and classic questions of political representation and values

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Front Matter (pages ixi)

Introduction (pages 114)?

Chapter 1 Comparing Upper-Middle-Class Managers in Four Cities (pages 1559)

Chapter 2 Managers in the City (pages 60106)

Chapter 3 Three Ways of Living in a Globalised World (pages 107148)

Chapter 4 Managers Social Networks (pages 149172)

Conclusion (pages 173188)

Bibliography (pages 189207)

Methodological Appendix (pages 208212)?

Questionnaire (pages 213240)

Index (pages 241245)

Alberta Andreotti is Research lӃ