Becoming middle class: How working-class university students draw and transgress moral class boundaries

Sociology

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 631-647

  Lehmann, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Class; Habitus; Individualization; Moral disposition; Social mobility

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349224648     PISSN: 00380385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0038038509105412     Document Type: Article

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