dc.contributor.advisor | Hermsen, Joan M. | eng |
dc.contributor.author | Albritton, Charise, 1969- | eng |
dc.date.issued | 2010 | eng |
dc.date.submitted | 2010 Fall | eng |
dc.description | Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on March 25, 2011). | eng |
dc.description | The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. | eng |
dc.description | Thesis advisor: Dr. Joan Hermsen. | eng |
dc.description | M.A. University of Missouri--Columbia 2010. | eng |
dc.description.abstract | Much of the literature on single motherhood has been devoted to poor or middle class single mothers. In this study I interviewed working class single mothers. Their unique position between the poor and the middle class leads to interesting observations about how women at the boundaries do and perform class. These women, while aware of the contradictions between their material realities and their symbolic realities, attempted to establish a middle class sense of identity through consumption, concerted cultivation and associational distancing strategies. These findings indicate that class is a salient feature in the life of working class single mothers and that they invoke strategies to maintain a sense of class identity and dignity. | eng |
dc.description.bibref | Includes bibliographical references. | eng |
dc.format.extent | xii, 56 pages | eng |
dc.identifier.merlin | b82190938 | eng |
dc.identifier.oclc | 710060539 | eng |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10355/10565 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.32469/10355/10565 | eng |
dc.language | English | eng |
dc.publisher | University of Missouri--Columbia | eng |
dc.relation.ispartofcommunity | University of Missouri--Columbia. Graduate School. Theses and Dissertations | eng |
dc.rights | OpenAccess. | eng |
dc.rights.license | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License. | |
dc.subject.lcsh | Single mothers -- Race identity | eng |
dc.subject.lcsh | Low-income single mothers -- Race identity | eng |
dc.subject.lcsh | Middle class women -- Race identity | eng |
dc.subject.lcsh | Working class women -- Race identity | eng |
dc.subject.lcsh | Dignity | eng |
dc.title | Working class single mothers : performing middle class identity | eng |
dc.type | Thesis | eng |
thesis.degree.discipline | Sociology (MU) | eng |
thesis.degree.grantor | University of Missouri--Columbia | eng |
thesis.degree.level | Masters | eng |
thesis.degree.name | M.A. | eng |