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The Power of the Past - Understanding Cross-Class Marriages (Hardcover)
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The Power of the Past - Understanding Cross-Class Marriages (Hardcover)
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In an era in which class divisions are becoming starker than ever,
some individuals are choosing to marry across class.The Power of
the Past traces the lives of a subset of these individuals -
highly-educated adults who married a partner raised in a class
different from their own, primarily between those from blue- and
white-color backgrounds. Drawing upon detailed interviews with
spouses who revealed the inner workings of their marriages, Jessi
Streib shows that crossing class lines is not easy, and that even
though these couples shared bank accounts, mortgages, children, and
friends, each spouse was still shaped by the class of their past,
and consequently, so was their marriage. Streib reveals what was
rarely apparent to the husbands and wives she interviewed. The
class of their past did not only matter in determining the amount
of money they had as children or what job their parents went off to
each morning; It also mattered in more subtle ways, by
systematically shaping their ideas of how to go about their daily
lives. Upwardly mobile spouses who grew up in blue-collar families
learned to take a laissez-faire approach to the world around them:
they preferred to go with the flow, make the most of the moment,
and avoid self-imposed constraints. Their spouses, who grew up in
professional white-collar families, however, wanted to manage the
world around them: they organized, planned, monitored, and oversaw.
Living with a spouse who was born into a different class means
navigating these differences - differences that appeared across
nearly every aspect of their lives, from how they manage their
finances, to how they manage their time - both at home and on
vacation - to ideas about how their children should be raised. The
Power of the Past illustrates that when individuals are raised in
different classes, merged lives do not lead to merged ideas about
how to lead those lives. Individuals can come together across class
lines, but their enduring class characteristics cannot be left
behind.
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