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| Personal Name | BanĚez, John Erwin S. |
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| Resource Title | Reconstructing Philippine Middle Class as a Multidimensional Social Development Construct: A Mixed-Methods Analysis Towards the Development of a Middle-Class Social Development Perspective |
| Date Issued | 25 June 2022 |
| Abstract | The study deals with the development of a Philippine Middle Class Social Development perspective. It interrogates the governing income-based definition of class and the dominant poverty alleviation and poor-focused perspective in thinking of and doing social development. A mixed-methods approach was utilized using several survey data from multiple years done in the Philippines and from the World Values Survey. Factor Analysis and Multinomial Logistic Regression were used for the quantitative analysis. Key informant interviews were conducted to arrive at lived experiences of currently middle-class people. The key informant interviews looked at their definition of middle class, and the transition from one social class to another, probing on possible factors that affect such social mobility. Bourdieu's social space served as the theoretical underpinning of the analysis. The study shows that the middle class does not differ so significantly from other classes when it comes to values, political beliefs, perceptions on democracy, and is much closer to the poor in terms of income. Education leading to gainful employment, scholarships, subsidy in housing rental cost, and consent to use a lot, were keys in upward social mobility and maintenance of middle class status. In addition to this, entrepreneurial activity is not a common characteristic of the middle class. Using Bourdieu's social space, it was shown that the Philippine Middle Class is income vulnerable, would experience felt poverty, could be supportive of authoritarian rule, could lack support for strong democratic processes, and cling to traditional values. These also indicate that the years of focus given to income-poverty reduction made us lag behind in social and political empowerment. Following the principle of starting from where we are, the position of the middle class in the social space was identified and this became a starting point in the development of a Philippine Middle Class Social Development Persp |
| Degree Course | Doctor of Social Development |
| Keyword | Neoliberalism; Middle Class; Bourdieu's Social Space; Perspectivism |
| Material Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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