About the Author | p. xi |
Preface | p. xiii |
Social Class in America | p. 1 |
Karl Marx | p. 3 |
Max Weber | p. 7 |
Three Issues and Ten Variables | p. 10 |
What Are Social Classes? | p. 11 |
An American Class Structure | p. 12 |
Is the American Class Structure Changing? | p. 14 |
Conclusion | p. 17 |
Key Terms Defined in the Glossary | p. 17 |
Suggested Readings | p. 17 |
Position and Prestige | p. 19 |
W. Lloyd Warner: Prestige Classes in Yankee City | p. 20 |
Prestige Class as a Concept | p. 23 |
How Many Classes? | p. 23 |
Class Structure of the Metropolis | p. 26 |
Prestige of Occupation | p. 30 |
Occupations and Social Classes | p. 33 |
People Like Us | p. 33 |
Conclusion: Perception of Rank and Strata | p. 35 |
Key Terms Defined in the Glossary | p. 37 |
Suggested Readings | p. 37 |
Social Class, Occupation, and Social Change | p. 38 |
Middletown: 1890 and 1924 | p. 39 |
Middletown Revisited | p. 40 |
Industrialization and the Transformation of the National Class Structure | p. 41 |
The National Upper Class | p. 42 |
The Industrial Working Class | p. 44 |
The New Middle Class | p. 46 |
National Occupational System | p. 47 |
The Transformations of the American Occupational Structure | p. 49 |
From Agricultural to Postindustrial Society | p. 51 |
Women Workers in Postindustrial Society | p. 53 |
Transformation of the Black Occupational Structure | p. 55 |
Wages in the Age of Growing Inequality | p. 56 |
Growing Inequality of Wages: Why? | p. 60 |
Harrison and Bluestone: New Corporate Strategies | p. 61 |
Frank and Cook: Winner Take All | p. 63 |
Conclusion | p. 64 |
Key Terms Defined in the Glossary | p. 65 |
Suggested Readings | p. 66 |
Wealth and Income | p. 68 |
The Income Parade | p. 69 |
Lessons From the Parade | p. 73 |
The Distribution of Income | p. 75 |
Sources of Income | p. 77 |
Income Shares | p. 78 |
Taxes and Transfers: The Government as Robin Hood? | p. 79 |
How Many Poor? | p. 81 |
Women and the Distribution of Household Income | p. 81 |
The Distribution of Wealth | p. 82 |
Trends in the Distribution of Wealth | p. 85 |
Trends in the Distribution of Income | p. 87 |
Income Dynamics | p. 89 |
Changing Federal Tax Rates | p. 89 |
Conclusion | p. 91 |
Key Terms Defined in the Glossary | p. 92 |
Suggested Readings | p. 92 |
Socialization, Association, Lifestyles, and Values | p. 93 |
Bourdieu: The Varieties of Capital | p. 94 |
Children's Conception of Social Class | p. 95 |
Kohn: Class and Socialization | p. 96 |
Lareau: Child Rearing Observed | p. 99 |
School and Marriage | p. 102 |
Marriage Styles | p. 104 |
Blue-Collar Marriages and Middle-Class Models | p. 107 |
Social Class and Domestic Violence | p. 111 |
Informal Association Among Adults | p. 113 |
Formal Associations | p. 115 |
Separate Lives | p. 116 |
Conclusion | p. 119 |
Key Terms Defined in the Glossary | p. 120 |
Suggested Readings | p. 120 |
Social Mobility: The Societal Context | p. 122 |
How Much Mobility? | p. 123 |
Wealth Mobility | p. 126 |
Social Mobility of Women | p. 126 |
Circulation and Structural Mobility | p. 128 |
Declining Social Mobility | p. 129 |
Conclusion | p. 130 |
Key Terms Defined in the Glossary | p. 130 |
Suggested Readings | p. 131 |
Family, Education, and Career | p. 132 |
Blau and Duncan: Analyzing Mobility Models | p. 134 |
Jencks on Equality | p. 137 |
Who Goes to College? | p. 141 |
College and the Careers of Women and Minorities | p. 144 |
Conclusion | p. 145 |
Key Terms Defined in the Glossary | p. 147 |
Suggested Readings | p. 147 |
Elites, the Capitalist Class, and Political Power | p. 148 |
Three Perspectives on Power | p. 149 |
Mills: The National Power Elite | p. 149 |
Mills, His Critics, and the Problem of Elite Cohesion | p. 152 |
Power Elite or Ruling Class? | p. 154 |
Who Rules? | p. 154 |
The National Capitalist Class: Economic Basis | p. 158 |
The National Capitalist Class: Social Basis | p. 162 |
The National Capitalist Class: Participation in Government | p. 165 |
Money and Politics | p. 168 |
Business Lobbies | p. 171 |
Policy-Planning Groups | p. 172 |
Indirect Mechanisms of Capitalist-Class Influence | p. 173 |
The Capitalist-Class Resurgence | p. 175 |
Conclusion | p. 176 |
Key Terms Defined in the Glossary | p. 177 |
Suggested Readings | p. 178 |
Class Consciousness and Class Conflict | p. 179 |
Marx and the Origins of Class Consciousness | p. 181 |
Richard Centers and Class Identification | p. 183 |
Correlates of Class Identification | p. 184 |
Married Women and Class Identification | p. 185 |
Class Identification, Political Opinion, and Voting | p. 186 |
Bott: Frames of Reference | p. 187 |
Elections and the Democratic Class Struggle | p. 188 |
Social Class and Party Identification and Support for Social Programs | p. 191 |
Class and Political Participation | p. 192 |
Trends in Class Partisanship | p. 193 |
Class Conflict and the Labor Movement | p. 194 |
The Postwar Armistice: Unions in the Age of Shared Prosperity | p. 196 |
Labor in Decline | p. 197 |
Conclusion | p. 200 |
Key Terms Defined in the Glossary | p. 201 |
Suggested Readings | p. 201 |
The Poor, the Underclass, and Public Policy | p. 203 |
The Beginnings of Welfare: Roosevelt | p. 205 |
Rediscovery of Poverty: Kennedy and Johnson | p. 206 |
The Official Definition of Poverty | p. 207 |
How Many Poor? | p. 210 |
Who Are the Poor? | p. 210 |
Trends in Poverty | p. 213 |
The Underclass and the Transitory Poor | p. 214 |
Restructuring Welfare | p. 216 |
The Mystery of Persistent Poverty | p. 219 |
Conclusion | p. 224 |
Key Terms Defined in the Glossary | p. 226 |
Suggested Readings | p. 226 |
The American Class Structure and Growing Inequality | p. 228 |
How Many Classes Are There? | p. 229 |
The Capitalist Class | p. 231 |
The Upper-Middle Class | p. 233 |
The Middle Class | p. 233 |
The Working Class | p. 234 |
The Working Poor | p. 235 |
The Underclass | p. 235 |
Growing Inequality | p. 236 |
Why? | p. 238 |
Vital Signs | p. 240 |
Glossary | p. 241 |
Bibliography | p. 253 |
Note on Statistical Sources | p. 271 |
Credits | p. 273 |
Index | p. 275 |
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