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This paper is aimed at 1) a theoretical exploration of the significance of identity as an explanatory variable of the middle class politics; 2) an historical investigation of the formation of the middle class as well as its differentiation into the propertied mainstream and the middling grassroots; and 3) an empirical testing of the differences of these two segments in terms of their socio-political orientations and the capacity of citizen’s action by using the nation-wide survey data accumulated since the middle of the 1980’s. The grassroots segment of the middle class is distinctive for its emphasis on, and sensitivity to, a people-oriented identity, which remains relatively weak if not totally absent among the propertied mainstream. The empirical analysis shows that the middling grassroots with a college education is a phenomenon of full significance, and, as such, invites our further researches.
This paper is aimed at 1) a theoretical exploration of the significance of identity as an explanatory variable of the middle class politics; 2) an historical investigation of the formation of the middle class as well as its differentiation into the propertied mainstream and the middling grassroots; and 3) an empirical testing of the differences of these two segments in terms of their socio-political orientations and the capacity of citizen’s action by using the nation-wide survey data accumulated since the middle of the 1980’s. The grassroots segment of the middle class is distinctive for its emphasis on, and sensitivity to, a people-oriented identity, which remains relatively weak if not totally absent among the propertied mainstream. The empirical analysis shows that the middling grassroots with a college education is a phenomenon of full significance, and, as such, invites our further researches.
