Difference and Alliance in Transnational Social Fields The Pendular Identity of the Filipino Middle Class

Thisarticle offers a cultural analysis of Filipino middle-class identity emerging in transnational social fields. Although the practice of identity construction of the middle class leads to polarization and fragmentation of society, the ambivalent character of their identity results in social networ...

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Main Author: Seki, Koki
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Published: Archīum Ateneo 2012
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spelling ph-ateneo-arc.phstudies-37762024-08-07T03:42:03Z Difference and Alliance in Transnational Social Fields The Pendular Identity of the Filipino Middle Class Seki, Koki Thisarticle offers a cultural analysis of Filipino middle-class identity emerging in transnational social fields. Although the practice of identity construction of the middle class leads to polarization and fragmentation of society, the ambivalent character of their identity results in social networks and alliances with members of different social classes in the Philippines. Thisarticle provides an approach to understand seemingly discrete and contrasting dual aspects—of differentiation and alliance, exclusion and inclusion, and plurality and unity—found in transnational social fields through an alternative framework of civil society and public sphere in the Philippines and other parts of the globalizing world. 2012-06-05T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://archium.ateneo.edu/phstudies/vol60/iss2/3 https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/phstudies/article/3776/viewcontent/4116.pdf Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints Archīum Ateneo
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description Thisarticle offers a cultural analysis of Filipino middle-class identity emerging in transnational social fields. Although the practice of identity construction of the middle class leads to polarization and fragmentation of society, the ambivalent character of their identity results in social networks and alliances with members of different social classes in the Philippines. Thisarticle provides an approach to understand seemingly discrete and contrasting dual aspects—of differentiation and alliance, exclusion and inclusion, and plurality and unity—found in transnational social fields through an alternative framework of civil society and public sphere in the Philippines and other parts of the globalizing world.
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author Seki, Koki
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Difference and Alliance in Transnational Social Fields The Pendular Identity of the Filipino Middle Class
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title Difference and Alliance in Transnational Social Fields The Pendular Identity of the Filipino Middle Class
title_short Difference and Alliance in Transnational Social Fields The Pendular Identity of the Filipino Middle Class
title_full Difference and Alliance in Transnational Social Fields The Pendular Identity of the Filipino Middle Class
title_fullStr Difference and Alliance in Transnational Social Fields The Pendular Identity of the Filipino Middle Class
title_full_unstemmed Difference and Alliance in Transnational Social Fields The Pendular Identity of the Filipino Middle Class
title_sort difference and alliance in transnational social fields the pendular identity of the filipino middle class
publisher Archīum Ateneo
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url https://archium.ateneo.edu/phstudies/vol60/iss2/3
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