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6%OFFAmy Hanser - Service Encounters: Class, Gender, and the Market for Social Distinction in Urban China - 9780804758376 - V9780804758376
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Service Encounters: Class, Gender, and the Market for Social Distinction in Urban China

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Description for Service Encounters: Class, Gender, and the Market for Social Distinction in Urban China Paperback. Explores how social and economic changes to Chinese society create various cultural values and forms of inequality. This book examines changes to a particular set of jobs - service work, in this case salesclerk work - and the nature of the social interactions involved. It shows how change involves unequal relations between clerks and customers. Num Pages: 256 pages, 3 tables, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; GTB; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 350.

This lively study explores how social and economic changes to Chinese society create new cultural values and forms of inequality. Amy Hanser examines changes to a particular set of jobs—service work, in this case salesclerk work—and the nature of the social interactions involved. It argues that a new "structure of entitlement," which makes elite groups feel more entitled to public forms of respect and social esteem, is constructed in settings like new, luxury department stores. The book not only shows how this change involves increasingly unequal relations between clerks and customers, but also demonstrates how marketplaces have become sites where ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804758376
SKU
V9780804758376
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Amy Hanser
Amy Hanser is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.

Reviews for Service Encounters: Class, Gender, and the Market for Social Distinction in Urban China
"Hanser provides a vivid account of the everyday implications of Post-Mao era economic reforms and how boundaries of class and gender are both articulated and made permeable. Her concise and careful use of social theory makes it a useful introduction to practices of class and gender distinction."
Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific "A pure pleasure ... Read more

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