In Pursuit of Status

Download or read book In Pursuit of Status written by Denise Potrzeba Lett and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ethnography of the everyday life of contemporary Korea, Denise Lett argues that South Korea’s contemporary urban middle class not only exhibits upper-class characteristics but also that this reflects a culturally inherited disposition of Koreans to seek high status. Lett shows that Koreans have adapted traditional ways of asserting high status to modern life, and analyzes strategies for claiming high status in terms of occupation, family, lifestyle, education, and marriage.