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- Title
The Short Life of the New Middle Classes in Portugal.
- Authors
Duarte, Alice
- Abstract
This article is based on research addressing the process of consumption as cultural practice; that is, the goods and services consumed are evaluated in terms of their resocialization by social actors. The research covered 24 households from Portugal's urban middle class and involved in-depth interviews and ethnography. This text explains some consumption practices and correlative cultural expressions of the new Portuguese middle classes, which confirms their very recent expansion, as well as their undeniable weakness, particularly financially. The strong tendency of this social segment for the remediado (person/household in an average, modest financial situation, with just enough for their needs), together with the current financial crisis, point to a rather short life for Portugal's new middle classes.
- Subjects
WESTERN Europe; EUROPE; PORTUGAL; MIDDLE class; CONSUMER culture; PORTUGUESE economy, 1974-; ANTHROPOLOGY; HOUSEHOLDS; PORTUGUESE economy; CONSUMPTION (Economics); TWENTY-first century; TWENTIETH century; SOCIAL history
- Publication
Anthropologica, 2015, Vol 57, Issue 2, p557
- ISSN
0003-5459
- Publication type
Article