The France of the Little-Middles

<ul> <li> Makes a significant contribution to social class analysis by introducing the “little middle” class category typified by neighborhood residents and their particular experience of class mobility.</li> <li> In complement to the substantial social science literature analyzing the experience of immigrants and their descendants in France this study is situated primarily in the receiving population (largely ignored by research to date) and analyzes their response to newcomers.</li> <li> A rare corrective to the usual focus on urban and rural extremes in the study of France which has long given a distorted view of French society.</li> <li> Provides a deeply ethnographic analysis of socio-political tendencies contextualized in the national scene that are used to interpret the national and local voting trend to the right.</li></ul>