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