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Respectable lives: social standing in rural New Zealand
Elvin Hatch
Year: 2008, c1992.
Publisher:  University of California Press. 
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table of contents
Title Page
Copyright and Permissions
Acknowledgments
CHAPTER ONE: Introduction
Choosing the Community
The Local Region
Standing and Personhood
The Issue of Gender
CHAPTER TWO: The Historical Pattern
Wheat Farming
Acquiring a Small Farm
Social Hierarchy in the Late Nineteenth Century
Relations Among Classes
Refrigeration and Farming
A "Revolution" in Politics
A Return of Prosperity
Changes in the Wider Society
The Changing Position of Agriculture in New Zealand
The Rural Hierarchy in 1981
CHAPTER THREE: The Occupational System
The Place of Farming in the Occupational System
Runs and Farms
The Relative Standing of Farmers and Run-Holders
Working People
Egalitarianism and Hierarchy
Business Owners, Salaried Employees, and Professionals
Another farmer commented:
No-Hopers
Households and Gender
CHAPTER FOUR: The Conceptual Basis of Occupational Standing
A Comparison of Communities
The Criterion of Wealth
The Criterion of Occupational Importance
The Criterion of Asymmetry
The Prominence of Landholders
The Relationship Among the Three Criteria
The Place of Occupations in the Social Hierarchy
CHAPTER FIVE: The Criterion of Wealth Among Farmers
Mistaking the Local Hierarchy of Wealth
Wealth and the Developmental Cycle
Income Tax and the Developmental Cycle
Wealth and the Agricultural Ladder
A Cultural Definition of Wealth
Naturalizing Wealth
CHAPTER SIX: The Criterion of Farming Ability
Evaluating Farming Ability
Others Evaluating Oneself
The Hierarchy of Ability
A Bounded System
CHAPTER SEVEN: The Criterion of Refinement: The 1920s
Hierarchy and Egalitarianism
A Hierarchy of Wealth
The Wealthy Landholders
Middling Two-Table Landholders
Middling One-Table Landholders
Hierarchy of Work Force Arrangements
The Local Elites
Local Theories of Social Hierarchy
CHAPTER EIGHT: The Criterion of Refinement: After World War II
Postwar Egalitarianism
Cultural Conceptions Behind Egalitarianism
Genteel Standing
Elite Families
A Genteel Conception of Person
CHAPTER NINE: Conclusion
Conceptions of Person
Notes
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Bibliography
Index
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Title: Respectable lives : social standing in rural New Zealand Elvin Hatch.
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Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008, c1992.
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Subject Headings: • Social structure -- New Zealand -- Canterbury
• Occupational prestige -- New Zealand -- Canterbury
• Canterbury (N.Z.) -- Rural conditions
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