The new class society : goodbye American dream? /

"The New Class Society introduces students to the sociology of class structure and inequalities as it asks whether or not the American dream has faded. The fourth edition of this powerful book demonstrates how and why class inequalities in the United States have been widened, hardened, and beco...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Perrucci, Robert
Other Authors: Wysong, Earl, 1944-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lanham, Md. : Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, [2014]
Edition:Fourth edition.
Subjects:
1980-2020
Social classes > United States.
Classes sociales > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes.
Social classes
Social conditions
United States > Social conditions > 1980-2020.
United States
dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Class in America: the way we were
  • The new American class structure
  • The new economy and the new class structure
  • The global economy and class inequalities
  • How the middle class died
  • Conflicting class interests and class war
  • The invisible class empire
  • Political finance: it's money that matters
  • Policy planning and classwide lobbying
  • The information industry
  • Educating for privilege: dreaming, streaming, and creaming
  • The pacification of everyday life
  • The culture industry and pacification
  • Class in the twenty-first century.

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