2014
DOI: 10.1080/0376835x.2014.975336
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The emergent middle class in contemporary South Africa: Examining and comparing rival approaches

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“…However, more than this, we suggest that the middle class represents a discursively-constructed category that itself is part of the process of mobilizing the ethical consumer. objective and subjective notions of class (Burger et al, 2015), South Africa's middle classes are often understood as "the consumer class[es]" (Kharas, 2010: 5). Despite representing a relatively small fraction of the population (see below), the South African middle classes are diverse and include a large proportion of white South Africans (both affluent and very affluent), the so-called 'Black Diamonds' or very-affluent black individuals, and an emerging group of black professionals and white-collar employees in both the public and private sectors.…”
Section: South Africa's Middle Class Consumersmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, more than this, we suggest that the middle class represents a discursively-constructed category that itself is part of the process of mobilizing the ethical consumer. objective and subjective notions of class (Burger et al, 2015), South Africa's middle classes are often understood as "the consumer class[es]" (Kharas, 2010: 5). Despite representing a relatively small fraction of the population (see below), the South African middle classes are diverse and include a large proportion of white South Africans (both affluent and very affluent), the so-called 'Black Diamonds' or very-affluent black individuals, and an emerging group of black professionals and white-collar employees in both the public and private sectors.…”
Section: South Africa's Middle Class Consumersmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Apart from earlier sociological work by Brandel-Syrier (1971), Mayer (1977) and Nyquist (1983), and the more recent work by Telzak (2014), Adato et al (2006), Nieftagodien & Gaule (2012), and Phadi & Manda (2010, most of the recent literature is quantitative in approach (see Burger et al, 2014). While there is a substantial literature on migration and movement of people across southern Africa, Lee's (2009) recent book African Women and Apartheid: Migration and Settlement in Urban South Africa starts addressing the issue of social mobility and metaphor more directly.…”
Section: Method Mobility and Metaphormentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Seekings (2009) and Southall (2004) have discussed how the two dominant and contrasting approaches to class -neoMarxist and neo-Weberian -have shaped social science discourse in South Africa (see also Burger et al, 2014). Seekings' (2009) explanation for the dominance of neo-Marxist approaches in the social science literature on South Africa since the 1970s is especially important, as is his call for scholars to familiarise themselves with an earlier 'Weberian moment in South African social science' and to build on an existing 'history of non-Marxist analysis of stratification in South Africa ' (2009:881).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This could mean that the ethnoracial autonomous mode of experience is more popular in the United States, as there is potentially a greater presence of social and cultural spaces free from white influence. Similarly, South Africa's collective black middle-class emerged at a similar time to Britain's (Burger et al 2015). However, South Africa is a black-majority country in comparison to white-majority Britain, so it could be that the class-minded mode of experience is more dominant in South Africa where there are greater attempts to symbolically separate the black middle-and lower-classes.…”
Section: Towards a Clearer Mosaicmentioning
confidence: 99%