2010
DOI: 10.3917/sopr.020.0075
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Les « Black Diamonds » existent-ils ? Médias, consommation et classe moyenne noire en Afrique du Sud

Abstract: Résumé L’émergence d’une classe moyenne noire dans l’Afrique du Sud post-apartheid est mesurée à l’aune de deux critères : l’accès à une consommation réservée jusqu’alors aux Blancs et la proportion d’entre eux ayant quitté les townships. Un terme spécifique, les « Black Diamonds », a été inventé pour désigner les membres de ce nouveau groupe. L’article, fondé sur l’analyse des discours et des représentations élaborés dans la presse, met tout d’abord en évidence la façon dont la consommation apparaît comme un … Show more

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“…This study was based on interviews with 750 adults in South Africa"s main cities drawn from categories 9 and 10 of the LSM (Krige 2011: 297f). And when it comes to projecting images of the new consumer classes, the media are much more influential than social scientists (Chevalier 2010). Indeed the latter often draw on labels created by professional specialists for their own analyses.…”
Section: Consumer Behaviour: a Political Question?mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This study was based on interviews with 750 adults in South Africa"s main cities drawn from categories 9 and 10 of the LSM (Krige 2011: 297f). And when it comes to projecting images of the new consumer classes, the media are much more influential than social scientists (Chevalier 2010). Indeed the latter often draw on labels created by professional specialists for their own analyses.…”
Section: Consumer Behaviour: a Political Question?mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Overall, the clubs, which during the apartheid period used to work as means of climbing up the social ladder, are no longer considered a space attractive enough to assert one's status, an aspiration which, for the emerging black middle class, for example, currently involves, as Sophie Chevalier writes, leaving the townships. 40 New links between the players and the clubs -the Mighty 5 Star since 2003 41 In 2011 the population of Kayamandi was estimated at 33,000. 42 As Larry Zietsman writes, by 2007 the African community had become the second-largest population group of Stellenbosch -it was then 23.5% of the residents, while coloureds comprised 54.8%, whites 21.4% and Asians 0.2% of the town's total population.…”
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confidence: 99%