Identity Under Pressure: Over-Indebtedness in the Middle Class

by Udo Dengel, Marion Müller, Patricia Pfeil

The authors examine identity strategies of middle-class couples who come under pressure of over-indebtedness. Based on biographical interviews collected in a qualitative panel study in three waves, they explore the question of how identity is worked on in the couple and how identity changes when social decline threatens. The theory-generating analysis brings out patterns of coping with over-indebtedness and self-placement described along the notions of 'continuity', 'modification' and 'moratorium'. Similarly, they explore how lifeworlds are constructed in and with over-indebtedness as a couple.

This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3658418540
• ISBN13: 9783658418540
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 203 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"