Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of Anthropology. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

With the increase in national income, demand for residential dwellings from the shelter, basic needs, thus taking into account the domestic situation, ventilation, lighting and other home within their own conditions, and noise, sanitation, etc. the quality of the external environment, gradually become the focus of concern, while the home security, life and leisure sports such as convenience demands increasing attention. In particular, the middle-class constitutes the backbone of society, to social development and stability of a great force in Kaohsiung local consumption patterns and cultural differences, the middle-class homebuyers demand for their own use and purchase of residential the decision-making may be different from other areas. Housing is a not a small number of financial decisions and expenditures, as housing is different from general merchandise, with durability, high prices and the repeat purchase rate of the smaller features, is the homebuyers in the decision-making process must be highly involved, and in the face of housing decisions, the consideration of the housing a myriad of factors. Residential properties for different homebuyers have different degrees of importance, is a very complex decision-making process, this study of " analytic hierarchy process (AHP) " to complex problems systematically, from different perspectives given level of decomposition and, through quantitative judgments, will be a comprehensive assessment of relevant information to provide homebuyers in the purchase decision-making appropriate and adequate information, decision-making aimed at resolving the difficulties of the temporary surface, reducing the risk of making a wrong decision, enabling more homebuyers transaction capacity to make the right decision. The use of " hierarchy analysis, " the establishment of multi-level evaluation model, the middle class-occupied residential property for Kaohsiung weight requirements analysis to understand the priority order; through the Conclusion of this study was to provide middle-class homebuyers Kaohsiung's reference, also provide Government and civil construction industry in the planning and building of own house, they can meet the Kaohsiung middle-class preferences.

Thesis (M. Hous. Man.)--University of Hong Kong, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-231) Also available in print.

Thesis (M.Hous.M.)--University of Hong Kong, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print.

Inaug.-Diss.--Leipzig. / Lebenslauf. "Berichtigungen" slip attached to p. [iv]. "Literatur-verzeichnis": 5 p. at end.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. af Sociology, December 2002. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (M. Hous. M.)--University of Hong Kong, 2006.

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Based on an ethnographic study of a middle class community in Beijing, this research attempts to investigate the formation of a specific segment of China's middle class, namely, the white-collar employees and the new generation of private entrepreneurs in urban China. It will demonstrate how this segment of China's middle class deliberately differentiate themselves from other social groups through symbolized everyday domestic practices, and capture the latest development of domestic lifestyles of China's middle class. / The economic reform in contemporary China has brought about transformations in its socio-economic and political environment. The implementation of a series of policies that changed the occupational structure, reinvented resources allocation mode, and increased the purchasing power of China's urban citizens has facilitated the emergence of a new social stratum. As this new middle stratum is still emerging and expanding, its composition is pluralistic. To describe the emerging affluent social classes, simply looking at economic indicators may not be adequate. Lifestyle factors have become important components in the shaping of China's new middle class. / Using Bourdieu's theoretical schema, three inter-related analytical questions regarding to domestic life patterns of China's middle class will be addressed in this research: their aspirations of home, how this expected domestic life is protected through collective actions, and how a local system or a moral order of behavior is gradually formed through mundane and ordinary everyday interactions. A legally recognized and protected homeownership has become the bottom line, upon which the middle class continue to develop higher requirements to live comfortably and safely at home. From these everyday practices in the field of domestic life, we shall see how the emerging middle class in China is establishing a lifestyle, forming a shared social identity, and constructing social space in the social structure. / Liu, Shuo. / Adviser: Lui Tai Lok. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-10, Section: A, page: . / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 187-196). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [201-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstract also in Chinese.