Rewealthization in twenty-first century Western countries:the defining trend of the socioeconomic squeeze of the middle class  

作　　者：Louis Chauvel Eyal Bar Haim Anne Hartung Emily Murphy 

机构地区：[1]Department of Sociology,University of Luxembourg,Esch-Belval,Luxembourg [2]Institute for Research on Socio-Economic Inequality IRSEI,University of Luxembourg,Esch-Belval,Luxembourg [3]Ben-Gurion University,Beersheba,Israel [4]STATEC,the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg,Luxembourg City,Luxembourg [5]SKOPE,University of Oxford,Oxford,UK.

出　　处：《The Journal of Chinese Sociology》2021年第1期57-73,共17页中国社会学杂志（英文）

基　　金：supported by the Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg(FNR),FNR/P11/05&FNR/P11/05bis.

摘　　要：The wealth-to-income ratio(WIR)in many Western countries,particularly in Europe and North America,increased by a factor of two in the last three decades.This represents a defining empirical trend:a rewealthization(from the French repatrimonialisation)—or the comeback of(inherited)wealth primacy since the mid-1990s.For the sociology of social stratification,“occupational classes”based on jobs worked must now be understood within a context of wealth-based domination.This paper first illustrates important empirical features of an era of rising WIR.We then outline the theory of rewealthization as a major factor of class transformations in relation to regimes stabilized in the post-WWII industrial area.Compared to the period where wealth became secondary to education and earnings for middle-class lifestyles,rewealthization steepens society's vertical structure;the"olive-shaped"Western society is replaced by a new one where wealth"abundance"at the top masks social reproduction and frustrations below.

关 键 词：INEQUALITY Middle-class society Repatrimonialization Wealth-to-income ratio 

分 类 号：O17[理学—数学]