Mortgage borrowers: everyday practices of rising mobility

• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: Russian Academy of Sciences, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology 2009-12-01
• Series: Социологический журнал
• Online Access: http://jour.fnisc.ru/upload/journals/1/articles/1110/submission/proof/1110-61-2082-1-10-20150321.pdf

The article has been examining the ways of transformation of mortgage borrowers’ everyday life as well as peculiarities of decision making under uncertainty and high risks closely related to house building and purchase dwelling. Our research is carrying out in Irkutsk since 2007. It shows that mortgage is not only “a school of financial competence”. Mortgage is a mechanism of new responsibility’s rising (through the person’s internal motivation) and new social competence (through the recourse mobilization — personal and person’s social network, self-organization and using new social practices). Thus mortgage is “a school of middle class”.