07031cam a2200829 i 4500 ocn889324193 OCoLC 20171026112758.0 m o d cr ||||||||||| 140825s2015 enk ob 001 0 eng 2014033902 9781118330777 electronic bk. 1118330773 electronic bk. 9781118330784 electronic bk. 1118330781 electronic bk. 9781118330791 111833079X 9781444334845 (hardback) EB00596247 Recorded Books AU@ 000053654611 NLGGC 383755832 DEBBG BV043397084 (OCoLC)889324193 (OCoLC)904961778 (OCoLC)927507899 DLC eng rda pn DLC N$T DG1 YDXCP OCLCQ N$T OCLCF RECBK EBLCP DEBBG KSU pcc e------ MAIN HN380.Z9 SOC 031000 bisacsh SOC 020000 bisacsh 305.5/2094 23 POL033000 bisacsh Andreotti, Alberta. Globalised minds, roots in the city : urban upper-middle classes in Europe / Alberta Andreotti, Patrick Le Gales and Francisco Javier Moreno-Fuentes. [electronic resource] Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2015. 1 online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Studies in Urban and Social Change Includes bibliographical references and index. ""Series page""; ""Studies in Urban and Social Change""; ""Title page""; ""Copyright page""; ""Series Editors’ Preface""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""Globalisation, Transnationalism and Mobility in European Cities""; ""Does Globalisation Induce ‘Exit’ Strategies?""; ""Mobility and the Weakening of Local Ties in the Urban Context""; ""Upper-Middle Classes: ‘Exit’ and Urban Disembeddedness""; ""The ‘Partial Exit’ and Distanceâ€"Proximity Strategies of European Upper-Middle Classes""; ""Structure of the Book""; ""1 Comparing Upper-Middle-Class Managers in Four Cities"" ""Searching for the European Upper-Middle Classes: The Choice of European Managers""""National Patterns in the Rise of Managers: France, Italy and Spain""; ""Managers in Four European Cities: Milan, Madrid, Lyon and Paris""; ""Selecting Four Neighbourhoods in Each City""; ""Who Are These European Managers?""; ""Managers as Modernising Agents""; ""Liberal Cultural Values: Managers as Post-Industrial Educated Cultural Species""; ""Cosmopolitanism, Europeanisation and Multilayered Identities""; ""Conclusions""; ""2 Managers in the City"" ""Combining Distance and Proximity: Interactions under Control""""Choosing a City or a Metropolitan Region: Inheritance, Family Ties and Professional Opportunities""; ""Choosing a ‘Good’ Neighbourhood Close to Family and Friends""; ""Keeping the Social Mix under Control Yet Fearless of the City""; ""Conclusion: Managers Choosing a Place to Liveâ€"Family Ties, Relative Degree of Mixing and Strict Control""; ""3 Three Ways of Living in a Globalised World""; ""Mobility, Transnationalism and Social Differentiation""; ""Living Abroad: A Dividing Line Among Managers"" ""Professional Partial Exit Strategies: Going Abroad and Coming Back""""The Most Common Form of Transnational Mobility: Short-Term and Short-Distance""; ""A Western-Centric World""; ""Virtual Mobility for ‘Digital Nomads’""; ""The World Is Becoming Increasingly More Competitive: Children Must Be Ready""; ""Rootedness as the Other Side of Mobility: Cross-Classifying Transnational Practices and Rootedness""; ""Conclusions: Transnationalisation Under Shelter?""; ""4 Managers’ Social Networks""; ""Managers’ Friends: Spatially Dispersed but Intensely Socially Homogeneous"" ""Family and the City: A Recovered Relation""""Neighbours: Who Are Those Strangers?""; ""Family and Friends, but No Engagement in the Public Sphere""; ""Conclusions: Dense Social Networks Abroad and in the City""; ""5 Conclusion""; ""A European Urban ‘Modernist’ Upper-Middle Class: Values, Networks of Friends and European Mobility … but the Future Is Global""; ""Transnational Mobility as Partial Exit: Mobility and Society""; ""Transnational Mobility as a New Cleavage Among the Upper-Middle Classes"" "Globalised Minds, Roots in the City utilises empirical evidence from four European cities to explore the role of urban upper middle classes in the transformations experienced by contemporary European societies. Presents new empirical evidence collected through an original comparative research about professionals and managers in four European cities in three countries Features an innovative combination of approaches, methods, and techniques in its analyses of European post-national societies Reveals how segments of Europe's urban population are adopting "exit" or "partial exit" strategies in respect to the nation state Utilises approaches from classic urban sociology, globalization and mobility studies, and spatial class analysis Includes in depth interviews, social networking techniques, and classic questions of political representation and values "-- Provided by publisher. "Presents new empirical evidence collected through an original comparative research about professionals and managers in four European cities in three countries"-- Provided by publisher. Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. Upper class Europe. Middle class Europe. Professional employees Europe. Executives Europe. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies bisacsh Executives. fast (OCoLC)fst00917875 Middle class. fast (OCoLC)fst01020437 Professional employees. fast (OCoLC)fst01078481 Upper class. fast (OCoLC)fst01162136 Professional employees - Europe. Europe. fast (OCoLC)fst01245064 Electronic books. Electronic books. Le Galès, Patrick. Moreno Fuentes, Francisco Javier. Print version: Andreotti, Alberta. Globalised minds, roots in the city. Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2015 9781444334845 (DLC) 2014031689 Studies in urban and social change. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118330791 Wiley Online Library ddc BK 207638 207638