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DeSoucey, Michaela. "Living in Their Parents’ Basements: How Traditional Mechanisms of Social Reproduction are Failing Middle Class Kids" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Marriott Hotel, Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Philadelphia, PA, Aug 12, 2005 <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p19510_index.html>

DeSoucey, M. , 2005-08-12 "Living in Their Parents’ Basements: How Traditional Mechanisms of Social Reproduction are Failing Middle Class Kids" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Marriott Hotel, Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Philadelphia, PA Online <PDF>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p19510_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: This paper’s aim is to problematize assumptions often made about upward mobility and value structures of members of those currently in possession of middle class status, given changing structural and cultural opportunities. Specifically, I examine ideas of changing occupational, educational, and consumerist structures that are currently affecting members of the middle class generation popularly known as X. I propose that assumptions we often make about the mechanisms of social reproduction for members of the middle class, often taken for granted as normative assumptions, are no longer wholly valid. The middle class ethos is pervasive in shaping our culture, politics and the media. Yet, younger adults with a decent income are increasingly struggling to get by, feeling frustrated over possibilities and options, saddled by college loans and deterred by the rising costs of home ownership. Examining the cultural intermediaries in middle class environments, especially consumer culture, obliges the problematizing of values and choices, both individual and collective, made in the past, present, and future for this generation.

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