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The Broken Promise of Meritocracy? German middle classes’ perceptions of upward social mobility in the Era of rising inequality. Based on a mixed-methods design, the article investigates German upper and lower middle class members’ perceptions...

Besides the functions and normativity of property, the value of property forms a third feature. This article argues that the value of property is based on, firstly, the propriation of time and, secondly, on the corresponding rationalization of an...

It is a basic assumption in sociology that people fight for the improvement of status. The paper discusses some implications of this general assumption. While the notion of status-oriented action is not always empirically supported, alternative...

The article pursues the issue of which social and cultural mechanisms support the emergence of negative affectivity in late-modern forms of life. It interprets the transformation from industrial to late-modernity along the parameters of...