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Respectable lives: social standing in rural New Zealand
Elvin Hatch
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Cover
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Title Page Respectable Lives
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Title Page Respectable Lives
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Copyright and Permissions
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Acknowledgments
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CHAPTER ONE Introduction
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Choosing the Community
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The Local Region
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Standing and Personhood
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The Issue of Gender
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CHAPTER TWO The Historical Pattern
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Wheat Farming
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Acquiring a Small Farm
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Social Hierarchy in the Late Nineteenth Century
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Relations Among Classes
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Refrigeration and Farming
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A "Revolution" in Politics
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A Return of Prosperity
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Changes in the Wider Society
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The Changing Position of Agriculture in New Zealand
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The Rural Hierarchy in 1981
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CHAPTER THREE The Occupational System
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The Place of Farming in the Occupational System
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Runs and Farms
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The Relative Standing of Farmers and Run-Holders
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Working People
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Egalitarianism and Hierarchy
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Business Owners, Salaried Employees, and Professionals
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Another farmer commented:
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No-Hopers
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Households and Gender
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CHAPTER FOUR The Conceptual Basis of Occupational Standing
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A Comparison of Communities
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The Criterion of Wealth
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The Criterion of Occupational Importance
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The Criterion of Asymmetry
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The Prominence of Landholders
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The Relationship Among the Three Criteria
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The Place of Occupations in the Social Hierarchy
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CHAPTER FIVE The Criterion of Wealth Among Farmers
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Mistaking the Local Hierarchy of Wealth
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Wealth and the Developmental Cycle
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Income Tax and the Developmental Cycle
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Wealth and the Agricultural Ladder
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A Cultural Definition of Wealth
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Naturalizing Wealth
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CHAPTER SIX The Criterion of Farming Ability
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Evaluating Farming Ability
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Others Evaluating Oneself
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The Hierarchy of Ability
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A Bounded System
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CHAPTER SEVEN The Criterion of Refinement: The 1920s
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Hierarchy and Egalitarianism
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A Hierarchy of Wealth
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The Wealthy Landholders
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Middling Two-Table Landholders
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Middling One-Table Landholders
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Hierarchy of Work Force Arrangements
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The Local Elites
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Local Theories of Social Hierarchy
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CHAPTER EIGHT The Criterion of Refinement: After World War II
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Postwar Egalitarianism
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Cultural Conceptions Behind Egalitarianism
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Genteel Standing
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Elite Families
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A Genteel Conception of Person
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CHAPTER NINE Conclusion
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Conceptions of Person
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Notes
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Chapter 1
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Chapter 2
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Chapter 3
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Chapter 4
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Chapter 5
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Chapter 6
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Chapter 7
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Chapter 8
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Chapter 9
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Bibliography
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Index
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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AE | 21.4 (Nov. 1994): 1037-1038 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0094-0496%28199411%2921%3A4%3C1037%3ARLSSIR%3E2.0.CO%3B2-H |
Man | 29.1 (Mar. 1994): 236-237 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0025-1496%28199403%292%3A29%3A1%3C236%3ARLSSIR%3E2.0.CO%3B2-J |
AJS | 99.1 (Jul. 1993):229-231 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-9602%28199307%2999%3A1%3C229%3ARLSSIR%3E2.0.CO%3B2-A |
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Published: 2008
Publisher: University of California Press
- 9780520074729 (hardcover)
- 9780520074736 (paper)