Identity Under Pressure von Marion Müller | Over-Indebtedness in the Middle Class | ISBN 9783658418540

Identity Under Pressure

Over-Indebtedness in the Middle Class

von Marion Müller, Patricia Pfeil, Udo Dengel und Lisa Donath
Mitwirkende
Autor / AutorinMarion Müller
Autor / AutorinPatricia Pfeil
Autor / AutorinUdo Dengel
Autor / AutorinLisa Donath
Buchcover Identity Under Pressure | Marion Müller | EAN 9783658418540 | ISBN 3-658-41854-0 | ISBN 978-3-658-41854-0
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Identity Under Pressure

Over-Indebtedness in the Middle Class

von Marion Müller, Patricia Pfeil, Udo Dengel und Lisa Donath
Mitwirkende
Autor / AutorinMarion Müller
Autor / AutorinPatricia Pfeil
Autor / AutorinUdo Dengel
Autor / AutorinLisa Donath

The authors examine identity strategies of middle-class couples who come under pressure of over-indebtedness. Based on biographical interviews collected in a qualitative panel study in three waves, they explore the question of how identity is worked on in the couple and how identity changes when social decline threatens. The theory-generating analysis brings out patterns of coping with over-indebtedness and self-placement described along the notions of 'continuity', 'modification' and 'moratorium'. Similarly, they explore how lifeworlds are constructed in and with over-indebtedness as a couple.


This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL. com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.