Doing Identity in Luxembourg : Subjective Appropriations - Institutional Attributions - Socio-Cultural Milieus.
Luxembourg - international financial center, European administrative center, destination country for immigration? This empirical study provides insights about a society that has hitherto largely eluded scientific investigation and observes the processes of identity construction in globalised conditi...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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transcript Verlag,
2014.
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| Series: | Kultur und soziale Praxis.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Cover Doing Identity in Luxembourg; Content; 1. Preface ; 2. Researching Identity Constructions ; 2.1 A theoretical-conceptional approach to identities ; 2.2 Methodology and Interdisciplinary Collaboration ; 2.3 References ; 3. Socio-Cultural Milieus in Luxembourg.
- 3.1 Changing Social Structures. From the vertically orientated concept of stratification to the horizontally diversified milieu landscape 3.2 Profiles of Socio-Cultural Milieus in Luxemburg ; 3.3 Final remark ; 3.4 References; 4. Languages and Identities.
- 4.1 Introduction: Germanic/Romance Diglossia 4.2 Key Survey Results Concerning the Linguistic Situation ; 4.3 Controversies in Readers' Letters concerning the Linguistic Situation ; 4.4 'Linguistic Landscape': Public Signage and Multilingualism.
- 4.5 Conclusion: Linguistic Polynomia as an Opportunity 4.6 References ; 5. Spaces and Identities ; 5.1 Introduction: Geographic Discourses and Tourism Practice ; 5.2 Between Seduction and Reality: Luxembourg City and its Discourses.
- 5.3 Representing and Revaluating the City: the Geo-Graphy and Visual Identity of Luxembourg City 5.4 Between National Unity and Regional Individualism 'Sways the Heart of Luxembourg' ; 5.5 The Image of Luxembourg as a 'Melting Pot'
- 5.6 The "Greater Region"
- Spatial Constructions between Desire and Reality.