@article {139916,
	title = {How Neo-Liberalism has Transformed France{\textquoteright}s Symbolic Boundaries?},
	journal = {French Politics, Culture and Society},
	volume = {32},
	number = {2},
	year = {2014},
	pages = {57-75},
	abstract = {
	This paper considers changes in the symbolic boundaries of French society under the influence of neo-liberalism. As compared to the early nineties, stronger boundaries toward the poor and Blacks are now being drawn while North-African immigrants and their offsprings continue to be largely perceived as outside the community of those who deserve recognition and protection. Moreover, while the social reproduction of upper-middle class privileges has largely remained unchanged, there is a blurring of the symbolic boundaries separating the middle and working class as the latter has undergone strong individualization. Also, the youth is now bearing the brunt of France{\textquoteright}s non-adaptation to changes in the economy and is increasingly marginalized. The result is a dramatic change in the overall contours of the French symbolic community, with a narrowed definition of cultural membership, and this, against a background of growing inequality, unemployment, and intolerance in a more open and deregulated labor market.

},
	author = {Lamont, Mich{\`e}le and Nicolas Duvoux}
}
