Service Encounters
This lively study explores how social and economic changes to Chinese society create new cultural values and forms of inequality. Amy Hanser examines changes to a particular set of jobs—service work, in this case salesclerk work—and the nature of the social interactions involved. It argues that a new"structure of entitlement,"which makes elite groups feel more entitled to pub...
This lively study explores how social and economic changes to Chinese society create new cultural values and forms of inequality. Amy Hanser examines changes to a particular set of jobs—service work, in this case salesclerk work—and the nature of the social interactions involved. It argues that a new"structure of entitlement,"which makes elite groups feel more entitled to pub...
出版社：Stanford University Press次
出版时间：2008-2-6
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作者简介
Amy Hanser (PhD in Sociology, UC Berkeley) is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. She has published articles and a book, Service Encounters (Stanford 2008), on service work, consumption, and inequality in urban China. Her current research projects include study of consumer rights' discourse in China, of North American media portrayals of Chin...
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This lively study explores how social and economic changes to Chinese society create new cultural values and forms of inequality. Amy Hanser examines changes to a particular set of jobs—service work, in this case salesclerk work—and the nature of the social interactions involved. It argues that a new"structure of entitlement,"which makes elite groups feel more entitled to pub...
