The New Class Society

by Perrucci, Robert; Wysong, Earl

• ISBN13: 9780847691722
• ISBN10: 0847691721
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-09-01
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc

Summary

This provocative book refocuses our attention on class interests that are rapidly polarizing American society. It redefines the terms of class analysis by arguing that the distribution of resources critical to class membership is shaped by large organizational structures and processes located in the economic, political, and cultural arenas. The authors show why, in the 21st century, class membership will be based on access to a new mix of critical resources: income, investment capital, credentialed skills verified by elite schools, and social connections to organizational leaders. The book is accessibly written for undergraduate students and for citizens concerned about the emerging iceberg of class inequalities_including features that are above and below the waterline of conventional social analysis as well as emerging struggles aimed at changing it.

Author Biography

Robert Perrucci is professor of sociology at Purdue University Earl Wysong is associate professor of sociology at Indiana University Kokomo

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures	vii
Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xiii
Class in America	1	(34)
Separate Realities: The Dream and the Iceberg	35	(44)
The Global Economy and the Privileged Class	79	(24)
The Invisible Class Empire	103	(40)
The Information Industry	143	(38)
Educating for Privilege: Dreaming, Streaming, and Creaming	181	(26)
The Pacification of Everyday Life	207	(34)
Class in the Twenty-first Century: Consolidation and Resistance	241	(36)
Bibliography	277	(16)
Index	293	(6)
About the Authors	299