Table of Contents

About the Author
Preface
1. Social Class in America
2. Position and Prestige
3. Social Class, Occupation, and Social Change
4. Wealth and Income
5. Socialization, Association, Lifestyles, and Values
6. Social Mobility: The Societal Context
7. Family, Education, and Career
8. Elites, the Capitalist Class, and Political Power
9. Class Consciousness and Class Conflict
10. The Poor, the Underclass, and Public Policy
11. The American Class Structure and Growing Inequality
Glossary
Bibliography
Note on Statistical Sources
Credits
Index

About the Author

Dennis Gilbert is Professor of Sociology Emeritus at Hamilton College. His publications include The Oligarchy and the Old Regime in Latin America, 1880 to 1970 (2017), Mexico’s Middle Class in the Neoliberal Era (2007), and Sandinistas: The Party and the Revolution (1991).