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Yuppie

Sociologyindex, Sociology Books 2011

“Yuppie” is a person who is less than 40 and who makes more than $100,000 a year.

Yuppie is an acronym that stands for an young, upwardly mobile person who is concerned only with his/her own lifestyle and economic security.

Yuppie is used as a term of opprobrium and or amused teasing.

Yuppie is the perfect person in a capitalist society and yuppie is also the one who maximizes his/her own pleasure.

Yuppie is one who helps extract surplus value from working class people and who spends discretionary money as fast as possible.

The Financial Times recently described a new breed of ‘eco-yuppie’. The eco yuppies can achieve in pinstripes what others do in combat boots. As one of them (a thirty-eight year old Oxford-educated barrister) remarked ‘we are palpably respectable, we know our rights, we know the law, and we’re not going to go away (Financial Times, 15.2.00).

The social construction of "the Islamic yuppie" and public opinion polls as arguments advocating a new kind of an urban, cosmopolitan citizen who can move fluidly through multiple spaces and scales. 

Determining Yuppie Cuisine
A 4 page paper that addresses the diversity of yuppie tastes in the culinary scene and describes why it is impossible to define a cuisine for yuppies, except that it includes everything. The paper posits that this is true because yuppies are investigative and supportive of diverse cultures. - universitip.com

Yuppie jazz dives: Yuppies don't generally like dives, but jazz, to a Yuppie, is a daring adventure. There may be no valet parking, but caution be damned!
Non-Yuppie jazz dives: Same as Yuppie jazz dives, but without the Lysol. - The Jazz Jam Session - A First-Timer's Guide - jazzinchicago.org

How Far North Are We Going?
By Duncan Smith, brown.edu/Student_Services/Writing_Fellows/el195/docs/north.doc
Excerpt: The “yuppie” is no longer an outsider. The BMW and the second home, the latter in a country of still too many homeless, is no longer a joke. The “yuppie” is now a major element of our contemporary culture, and the practices associated with her or him are gradually becoming general social practices.
As usual, it is easier to talk about such matters in the abstract. A “yuppie” could be anyone, his/her without ever mentioning that I am writing this on an expensive piece of high-tech machinery at a prestigious and wealthy university which makes verifiable claims, as we all do, to being “poor.” It is a place with ever-expanding needs, foremost of which is satisfying the desires of its users-faculty, students, administration, alumni.

Stressed Out on Four Continents: Time Crunch or Yuppie Kvetch? 
DANIEL S. HAMERMESH, University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
JUNGMIN LEE, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville - Department of Economics; Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA); University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics 
Abstract: Social commentators have pointed to problems of women workers who face 'time stress' - an absence of sufficient time to accomplish all their tasks. An economic theory views time stress as reflecting how tightly the time constraint binds households. Time stress will be more prevalent in households with higher incomes and whose members work longer in the market or on required' homework. Evidence from Australia, Canada, Germany, Korea and the United States corroborates this view. Adults in higher-income households perceive more time stress for the same amount of time spent in market work and household work. The importance of higher full incomes in generating time stress is not small, particularly in North America - much is 'yuppie kvetch'. While time stress is most prevalent among working wives, a decomposition suggests that women would perceive more time stress than men even if both worked the same number of hours in the market and at home. - papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=481457

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