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How political is the "middle class" in Kenya?

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Neubert, Dieter:
How political is the "middle class" in Kenya?
In: Journal of Contemporary African Studies. Bd. 41 (2023) Heft 1 . - S. 44-59.
ISSN 1469-9397
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2021.1933396

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Projektfinanzierung: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung

Abstract

The current debate presents the middle class in the Global South as a driver of democratic change and the core of civil society. The activities of NGOs, or student protests, for instance, seem to support this notion. However, these examples should not be overstretched. Before confirming the idea that the ‘middle class’ is a carrier of political protest and a driver of democratic change, we need to answer at least two questions. Is the ‘middle class’ really a class in the strict sociological sense, with a common class consciousness or just a group with a middle-income: ‘middle income group’? And are the protests really representative of the middle-income group? Taking Kenya as an example, we cannot identify a ‘middle class’ in the strict sense of the sociological class concept. Neither does the political commitment of the middleincome group follow socio-economic differences. More important are patterns of socio-cultural differentiation that can be conceptualised as socio-cultural ‘milieus’.

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Publikationsform: Artikel in einer Zeitschrift
Begutachteter Beitrag: Ja
Keywords: Kenya; middle class; milieu; socio-cultural differentiation
Institutionen der Universität: Fakultäten > Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät > Lehrstuhl Entwicklungssoziologie
Fakultäten
Fakultäten > Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Titel an der UBT entstanden: Ja
Themengebiete aus DDC: 300 Sozialwissenschaften > 300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie
Eingestellt am: 23 Dec 2021 06:50
Letzte Änderung: 20 Feb 2024 11:52
URI: https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/68232