The New Class Society: Goodbye American Dream?

by Perrucci, Robert; Wysong, Earl

• ISBN13: 9780742519381
• ISBN10: 0742519384
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-07-01
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc

Summary

Extensively revised, the second edition of The New Class Society includes innovative new sections and concepts throughout the book that identify and explore how complex organizational structures and actions create and perpetuate class, gender, and r

Author Biography

Earl Wysong is professor of sociology at Indiana University Kokomo.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures	p. vii
Preface to the Second Edition	p. ix
Preface to the First Edition	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Class in America	p. 1
Separate Realities: The Dream and the Iceberg	p. 41
The Global Economy and the Privileged Class	p. 91
The Invisible Class Empire	p. 119
The Information Industry	p. 165
Educating for Privilege: Dreaming, Streaming, and Creaming	p. 207
The Pacification of Everyday Life	p. 239
Class in the Twenty-first Century: Consolidation and Resistance	p. 277
Bibliography	p. 325
Index	p. 351
About the Authors	p. 359
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