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9780312122478

American Social Classes in the 1950s

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  • ISBN13:

    9780312122478

  • ISBN10:

    0312122470

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1995-03-01
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

This volume offers an abridgment of The Status Seekers, Vance Packard's influential and popular study of social status and stratification in 1950s America. An introductory essay places Packard and his book in their historical context and discusses the role that social criticism played during the nation's transition from '50s complacency to '60s turbulence. Also included are an album of cartoons, a chronology, question for consideration, a bibliography, and an index.

Table of Contents

Foreword iii
Preface v
PART ONE Introduction: Social Criticism in an Age of Conformity and Anxiety 1(28)
PART TWO The Document 29(178)
The Status Seekers
31(176)
APPENDICES
The Status Seekers in Cartoons
191(5)
The United States and Vance Packard from the 1940s to the 1960s: A Chronology of Political Events, Consumer Culture, and Social Criticism
196(7)
Questions for Consideration
203(1)
Selected Bibliography
204(3)
Index 207

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