The American class structure in an age of growing inequality. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Dennis Gilbert.
• Authors: Gilbert, Dennis L
• Contents: About the Author; Preface; Chapter 1 Social Class in America; Karl Marx; Max Weber; Three Issues and 10 Variables; What Are Social Classes?; An American Class Structure; Is the American Class Structure Changing?; Conclusion; Key Terms Defined in the Glossary; Suggested Readings; Chapter 2 Position and Prestige; People Like Us; W. Lloyd Warner: Prestige Classes in Yankee City; Prestige Class as a Concept; How Many Classes?; Class Structure of the Metropolis; Prestige of Occupations; Occupations and Social Classes; Conclusion: Perception of Social Rank and Prestige Classes; Key Terms Defined in the Glossary; Suggested Readings; Chapter 3 Social Class, Occupation, and Social Change; Middletown: 1890 and 1924; Middletown Revisited; Industrialization and the Transformation of the National Class Structure; The National Upper Class; The Industrial Working Class; The New Middle Class; National Occupational System; The Transformations of the American Occupational Structure; From Agricultural to Postindustrial Society; The Loss of Manufacturing Jobs; Women Workers in Postindustrial Society; Transformation of the Black Occupational Structure; Hispanic Workers in Postindustrial Society; Wages in the Age of Growing Inequality; Growing Inequality of Wages: Why?; Harrison and Bluestone: New Corporate Strategies; Frank and Cook: Winner Take All; Conclusion; Key Terms Defined in the Glossary; Suggested Readings; Chapter 4 Wealth and Income; The Income Parade; Lessons From the Parade; The Distribution of Income; Sources of Income; Taxes and Transfers: The Government as Robin Hood?; How Many Poor?; Women and the Distribution of Household Income; The Distribution of Wealth; The Changing Distribution of Wealth; The Changing Distribution of Income; Income Dynamics; Changing Tax Rates; Conclusion; Key Terms Defined in the Glossary; Suggested Readings; Chapter 5 Socialization, Association, Lifestyles, and Values; Bourdieu: The Varieties of Capital; Children’s Conception of Social Class; Kohn: Class and Socialization; Lareau: Child Rearing Observed; Patterns of Association in Early Life; Marriage Styles; Blue-Collar Marriages and Middle-Class Models; Social Class and Domestic Violence; The Marriage Gap; Cherlin: The Disappearing Working-Class Family; Informal Association Among Adults; Formal Associations; Separate Lives; Residential Segregation; Conclusion; Key Terms Defined in the Glossary; Suggested Readings; Chapter 6 Social Mobility: The Societal Context; How Much Mobility?; Social Mobility of Women; Circulation and Structural Mobility; Declining Social Mobility; American Mobility in Comparative Perspective; Conclusion; Key Terms Defined in the Glossary; Suggested Readings; Chapter 7 Family, Education, and Career; Blau and Duncan: Analyzing Mobility Models; Jencks on Equality; The Fortunes of Sons and Daughters; Who Goes to College?; The Stratification of Higher Education; Conclusion; Key Terms Defined in the Glossary; Suggested Readings; Chapter 8 Elites, the Capitalist Class, and Political Power; Three Perspectives on Power; Mills: The National Power Elite; Mills, His Critics, and the Problem of Elite Cohesion; Power Elite or Ruling Class?; Who Rules?; Winters’ Oligarchy; The National Capitalist Class: Economic Basis; The National Capitalist Class: Social Basis; A New Elite?; The National Capitalist Class: Participation in Government; Money and Politics; The Fate of Campaign Finance Reform; Who Gives?; What Do Rich People Want?; Business Lobbies; Policy-Planning Groups; Indirect Mechanisms of Capitalist-Class Influence; The Capitalist-Class Resurgence; Conclusion; Key Terms Defined in the Glossary; Suggested Readings; Chapter 9 Class Consciousness and Class Conflict; Class Identification; Correlates of Class Identification; Class Identification, Political Opinion, and Voting; Elections and the Democratic Class Struggle; The End of the Democratic Class Struggle; Why Trump?; Policy Preference and Government Response; Class and Political Participation; Class Conflict and the Labor Movement; The Postwar Armistice: Unions in the Age of Shared Prosperity; Labor in Decline; Hacker and Pierson: Winner-Take-All Politics; Conclusion; Key Terms Defined in the Glossary; Suggested Readings; Chapter 10 Poverty and Public Policy; Roosevelt and the Beginnings of Welfare; Rediscovery of Poverty: Kennedy and Johnson; The Official Definition of Poverty; How Many Poor?; Who Are the Poor?; Trends in Poverty; The Transitory Poor and the Underclass; Restructuring Welfare; The Earned Income Tax Credit; Persistent Poverty; Economic Trends; Changing Family Patterns; Government Policy; American Poverty in Comparative Perspective; Conclusion; Key Terms Defined in the Glossary; Suggested Readings; Chapter 11 The American Class Structure and Growing Inequality; How Many Classes Are There?; The Class Structure; Growing Inequality; Why?; Hard Times in the Age of Growing Inequality; Key Terms Defined in the Glossary; Glossary; Bibliography; Note on Statistical Sources; Index;
• Edition: Tenth edition
• Publisher Details: Los Angeles : SAGE
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 305.50973; Social classes -- United States; Equality -- United States; Poverty -- United States; United States -- Social conditions; United States -- Economic conditions
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781506345987
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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