| |
| |
The Dimensions of Class | |
| |
| |
Karl Marx | |
| |
| |
Max Weber | |
| |
| |
Nine Variables | |
| |
| |
The Variables as a System | |
| |
| |
What Are Social Classes? | |
| |
| |
An American Class Structure | |
| |
| |
Is the American Class Structure Changing? | |
| |
| |
Conclusion | |
| |
| |
Key Terms Defined in the Glossary | |
| |
| |
Suggested Readings | |
| |
| |
Position and Prestige | |
| |
| |
W. Lloyd Warner: Prestige Classes in Yankee City | |
| |
| |
Prestige Class as a Concept | |
| |
| |
How Many Classes? | |
| |
| |
Class Structure of the Metropolis | |
| |
| |
Prestige of Occupation | |
| |
| |
Occupations and Social Classes | |
| |
| |
Conclusion: Perception of Rank and Strata | |
| |
| |
Key Terms Defined in the Glossary | |
| |
| |
Suggested Readings | |
| |
| |
Social Class, Occupation, and Social Change | |
| |
| |
Middletown: 1890 and 1924 | |
| |
| |
Middletown Revisited | |
| |
| |
Industrialization and the Transformation of the National Class Structure | |
| |
| |
The National Upper Class | |
| |
| |
The Industrial Working Class | |
| |
| |
The New Middle Class | |
| |
| |
National Occupational System | |
| |
| |
The Transformations of the American Occupational Structure | |
| |
| |
From Agricultural to Postindustrial Society | |
| |
| |
Women Workers in Postindustrial Society | |
| |
| |
Transformation of the Black Occupational Structure | |
| |
| |
Wages in the Age of Growing Inequality | |
| |
| |
Growing Inequality of Wages: Why? | |
| |
| |
Harrison and Bluestone: New Corporate Strategies | |
| |
| |
Frank and Cook: Winner Take All | |
| |
| |
Conclusion | |
| |
| |
Key Terms Defined in the Glossary | |
| |
| |
Suggested Readings | |
| |
| |
Wealth and Income | |
| |
| |
The Income Parade | |
| |
| |
Lessons from the Parade | |
| |
| |
The Distribution of Income | |
| |
| |
Sources of Income | |
| |
| |
Income Shares | |
| |
| |
Taxes and Transfers: The Government as Robin Hood? | |
| |
| |
How Many Poor? | |
| |
| |
Women and the Distribution of Household Income | |
| |
| |
The Distribution of Wealth | |
| |
| |
Trends in the Distribution of Wealth | |
| |
| |
Trends in the Distribution of Income | |
| |
| |
Income Dynamics | |
| |
| |
News from Another Planet | |
| |
| |
Changing Federal Tax Rates | |
| |
| |
Conclusion | |
| |
| |
Key Terms Defined in the Glossary | |
| |
| |
Suggested Readings | |
| |
| |
Socialization, Association, Lifestyles, and Values | |
| |
| |
Children's Conception of Social Class | |
| |
| |
Kohn: Class and Socialization | |
| |
| |
School and Marriage | |
| |
| |
Marriage Styles | |
| |
| |
Blue-Collar Marriages and Middle-Class Models | |
| |
| |
Social Class and Domestic Violence | |
| |
| |
Informal Association Among Adults | |
| |
| |
Formal Associations | |
| |
| |
Separate Lives | |
| |
| |
Conclusion | |
| |
| |
Key Terms Defined in the Glossary | |
| |
| |
Suggested Readings | |
| |
| |
Social Mobility: The Structural Context | |
| |
| |
How Much Mobility? | |
| |
| |
Social Mobility of Women | |
| |
| |
Causes of Mobility | |
| |
| |
Trends in Social Mobility | |
| |
| |
Trends in Black Mobility | |
| |
| |
Conclusion | |
| |
| |
Key Terms Defined in the Glossary | |
| |
| |
Suggested Readings | |
| |
| |
Family, Education, and Career | |
| |
| |
Blau and Duncan: Analyzing Mobility Models | |
| |
| |
Jencks on Equality | |
| |
| |
Who Goes to College? | |
| |
| |
College and the Careers of Women and Minorities | |
| |
| |
Conclusion | |
| |
| |
Key Terms Defined in the Glossary | |
| |
| |
Suggested Readings | |
| |
| |
Elites, the Capitalist Class, and Political Power | |
| |
| |
Three Perspectives on Power | |
| |
| |
Mills: The National Power Elite | |
| |
| |
Mills, His Critics, and the Problem of Elite Cohesion | |
| |
| |
Pluralism, Strategic Elites, and Cohesion | |
| |
| |
Power Elite or Ruling Class? | |
| |
| |
The National Capitalist Class: Economic Basis | |
| |
| |
The National Capitalist Class: Social Basis | |
| |
| |
The National Capitalist Class: Participation in Government | |
| |
| |
Money and Politics | |
| |
| |
Business Lobbies | |
| |
| |
Policy-Planning Groups | |
| |
| |
Indirect Mechanisms of Capitalist-Class Influence | |
| |
| |
The Capitalist-Class Resurgence | |
| |
| |
Conclusion | |
| |
| |
Key Terms Defined in the Glossary | |
| |
| |
Suggested Readings | |
| |
| |
Class Consciousness and Class Conflict | |
| |
| |
Marx and the Origins of Class Consciousness | |
| |
| |
Richard Centers and Class Identification | |
| |
| |
Correlates of Class Identification | |
| |
| |
Married Women and Class Identification | |
| |
| |
Class Identification, Political Opinion, and Voting | |
| |
| |
Bott: Frames of Reference | |
| |
| |
Elections and the Democratic Class Struggle | |
| |
| |
Social Class and Support for Social Programs | |
| |
| |
Class and Political Participation | |
| |
| |
Trends in Class Partisanship | |
| |
| |
Class Conflict and the Labor Movement | |
| |
| |
The Postwar Armistice | |
| |
| |
Labor in Decline | |
| |
| |
Conclusion | |
| |
| |
Key Terms Defined in the Glossary | |
| |
| |
Suggested Readings | |
| |
| |
The Poor, the Underclass, and Public Policy | |
| |
| |
The Beginnings of Welfare: Roosevelt | |
| |
| |
Rediscovery of Poverty: Kennedy and Johnson | |
| |
| |
The Official Definition of Poverty | |
| |
| |
How Many Poor? | |
| |
| |
Who Are the Poor? | |
| |
| |
Trends in Poverty | |
| |
| |
The Underclass and the Transitory Poor | |
| |
| |
Restructuring Welfare | |
| |
| |
The Mystery of Persistent Poverty | |
| |
| |
Conclusion | |
| |
| |
Key Terms Defined in the Glossary | |
| |
| |
Suggested Readings | |
| |
| |
The American Class Structure and Growing Inequality | |
| |
| |
How Many Classes Are There? | |
| |
| |
The Capitalist Class | |
| |
| |
The Upper-Middle Class | |
| |
| |
The Middle Class | |
| |
| |
The Working Class | |
| |
| |
The Working Poor | |
| |
| |
The Underclass | |
| |
| |
Growing Inequality | |
| |
| |
Why? | |
| |
| |
Straws in the Wind | |
| |
| |
Glossary | |
| |
| |
Bibliography | |
| |
| |
Note on Statistical Sources | |
| |
| |
Credits | |
| |
| |
Index | |