Naming oneself in the social mirror : a vignette-based survey
Mac-Clure, Oscar (Universidad de Los Lagos)
Barozet, Emmanuelle (Universidad de Chile)
Valenzuela, Ana María (Universidad de Santiago de Chile)

Date:	2020
Description:	24 pag.
Abstract:	In order to understand the way in which people self-identify in society and as a contribution to debates about class identity in Latin America, in this article we assess how individuals categorize themselves and others socially, and discuss whether a significant portion of the population classifies itself as middle class. We address the question of whether or not individuals' representation of their social position is linked to social class, examining whether that position incorporates a socio-economic dimension, a hierarchical dimension, or even an element of moral value. We focus on how individuals name their own social position by means of a vignette-based survey applied in 2016 to a randomized sample of 2,000 people in Chile. The results show that the theoretical notion of class is still of relevance to subjective positioning criteria, and that such criteria are specific to individuals who self-identify with lower or higher social positions.
Grants:	European Commission 691004
Note:	Production of INCASI Project H2020-MSCA-RISE-2015 GA 691004
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; Versió acceptada per publicar
Subject:	Stratification ; Social Inequality ; Social Class ; Subjectivity ; Vignette Analysis ; Latin America ; Chile
Published in:	Current sociology, June 27 (2020) , ISSN 1461-7064

DOI: 10.1177/0011392120932953

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