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| '''Social class''' is the sociological term for the layering or ''stratification'' of society from high to low. | | '''Social class''' is the sociological term for the layering or ''stratification'' of society from high to low. |
| | ==History== |
| | See [[Social History, U.S.]] |
| ===Class models=== | | ===Class models=== |
| ===Class conflict: Marxist models=== | | ===Class conflict: Marxist models=== |
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| ===Stratification in comparative perspective=== | | ===Stratification in comparative perspective=== |
| ===Class and political behavior=== | | ===Class and political behavior=== |
| | see [[Party Systems]] |
| ===Class and lifestyles=== | | ===Class and lifestyles=== |
| ====Upper classes==== | | ====Upper classes==== |
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| [[Rural poverty]] | | [[Rural poverty]] |
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| ==Bibliography== | | ==References== |
| * Louise Archer et al. ''Higher Education and Social Class: Issues of Exclusion and Inclusion'' , 2003
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| * Leonard Beeghley. ''Structure of Social Stratification in the United States,'' (5th ed. 2007)
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| * Daniel Bertaux and Paul Thompson; ''Pathways to Social Class: A Qualitative Approach to Social Mobility'', (1997) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=48998503 online edition]
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| * Thomas N. Bisson; ''Cultures of Power: Lordship, Status, and Process in Twelfth-Century Europe'' 1995
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| * Peter Blau and Otis D. Duncan, ''The American Occupational Structure'' (1967) classic study of structure and mobility
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| * Brady, David "Rethinking the Sociological Measurement of Poverty" ''Social Forces'' 81#3 2003, pp. 715-751; in Project Muse. * Leonard Broom and F. Lancaster Jones, ''Opportunity and Attainment in Australia'' (1977)
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| * Lizabeth Cohen. ''Consumer's Republic'', (2003), Historical analysis of the expression through consumer goods of class in the United States.
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| * Gary Day, ''Class'' (2001)
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| * Eichar, Douglas M. ''Occupation and Class Consciousness in America'' Greenwood Press, 1989 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=24419510 online edition]
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| * Rick Fantasia, Rhonda F. Levine, Scott G. McNall, eds. ''Bringing Class Back in: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives'' 1991 [http://www.questia.com/library/book/bringing-class-back-in-contemporary-and-historical-perspectives-by-rick-fantasia-rhonda-f-levine-scott-g-mcnall.jsp online edition]
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| * David L. Featherman and Robert M. Hauser, ''Opportunity and Change'' (1978). major sociology study of US; heavily statistical
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| * Paul Fussell ''Class: a painfully accurate guide through the American status system'', 1983.
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| * John Goldthorpe and Robert Erikson, ''The Constant Flux: A Study of Class Mobility in Industrial Society'' (1992)
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| * David B Grusky. ed. ''Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective'' (2001) collection of scholarly articles
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| * David B Grusky. ''Social Stratification in Sociological Perspective: Class, Race, and Gender,'' (2007)
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| * Lawrence E. Hazelrigg and Joseph Lopreato; ''Class, Conflict, and Mobility: Theories and Studies of Class Structure'' 1972. [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=57163299 online edition]
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| * Helmut Kaeble, ''Social Mobility in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Europe and America in Comparative Perspective'' (1985)
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| * Alan Kerckhoff, ed. ''Generating Social Stratification'' (2nd ed. 2005)
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| * Pat Mahony and Christine Zmroczek; ''Class Matters: 'Working-Class' Women's Perspectives on Social Class'', (1997) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=109231990 online edition]
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| * John M. Merriman; ''Consciousness and Class Experience in Nineteenth-Century Europe'', (1979) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=57048658 online edition]
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| * Susan A. Ostrander; ''Women of the Upper Class'', 1984 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=23421823 online edition]
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| * Ramaswami Mahalingam; "Essentialism, Culture, and Power: Representations of Social Class" ''Journal of Social Issues,'' Vol. 59, 2003 pp 733+ on India
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| * Jeff Manza and Clem Brooks; ''Social Cleavages and Political Change: Voter Alignments and U.S. Party Coalitions'' Oxford University Press, 1999 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=37108838 online edition]
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| * Jeff Manza; "Political Sociological Models of the U.S. New Deal" ''Annual Review of Sociology'', 2000 pp 297+ [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=95174043 online edition]
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| * Jeff Manza, Michael Hout, and Clem Brooks; "Class Voting in Capitalist Democracies since World War II: Dealignment, Realignment, or Trendless Fluctuation?" ''Annual Review of Sociology'', Vol. 21, 1995
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| * Michael Marmot. ''The Status Syndrome: How Social Standing Affects Our Health and Longevity'' 2004
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| * Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, ''The Communist Manifesto'', (1848). (A famous statement of class conflict as the driver of historical change.)
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| * Brian P. Owensby; ''Intimate Ironies: Modernity and the Making of Middle-Class Lives in Brazil'' Stanford University, 1999
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| * Jan Pakulski and Malcolm Waters, ''The Death of Class'', (1996). rejection of the relevance of class for modern societies
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| * Geoff Payne. ''The Social Mobility of Women: Beyond Male Mobility Models'' (1990)
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| * Mike Savage. ''Class Analysis and Social Transformation'', 2000
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| * G. de Ste Croix, "Class in Marx's Conception of History, Ancient and Modern", ''New Left Review,'' no. 146, 1984, pp. 94-111
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| *Richard Sennett and Jonathan Cobb, ''The Hidden Injuries of Class'', (1972) (classic study of the subjective experience of class)
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| * Lewis H. Siegelbaum and Ronald Grigor Suny, eds. ''Making Workers Soviet: Power, Class, and Identity.'' 1994. Russia 1870 - 1940
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| * Pitrim Sorokin, ''Social and Cultural Mobility'' (1927) useful survey of European and American scholarship to mid-1920s [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=59119345 online edition]
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| * Daniel J. Walkowitz; ''Working with Class: Social Workers and the Politics of Middle-Class Identity'' 1999 [http://www.questia.com/library/book/working-with-class-social-workers-and-the-politics-of-middle-class-identity-by-daniel-j-walkowitz.jsp online edition]
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| * W. Lloyd Warner et al. ''Social Class in America: A Manual of Procedure for the Measurement of Social Status'' 1949. [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=10605346 online edition]
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| * Max Weber, "Class, Status and Party", in Hans Gerth, and C. Wright Mills, ''From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology'', 1958. (Weber's key statement of the multiple nature of stratification.)
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| * Wouters; Cas. "The Integration of Social Classes." ''Journal of Social History''. 29#1 1995. pp 107+. on social manners [http://www.questia.com/read/5000354440 online edition]
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| * Erik Olin Wright ''The Debate on Classes'' (1990), neo-Marxist
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| * Erik Olin Wright ''Class Counts: Comparative Studies in Class Analysis'' (Cambridge University Press, 1997) [http://www.questia.com/library/book/class-counts-student-edition-by-erik-olin-wright.jsp online edition]
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| * Erik Olin Wright ed. ''Approaches to Class Analysis'' (2005)scholarly articles
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| * Christine Zmroczek and Pat Mahony, eds. ''Women and Social Class: International Feminist Perspectives.'' 1999 [http://www.questia.com/library/book/women-and-social-class-international-feminist-perspectives-by-pat-mahony-christine-zmroczek.jsp online edition]
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| ==See Also==
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| * [[ethnic group]]
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| * [[race]]
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| * [[Social History, U.S.]]
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| * [[Latino history]]
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| * [[Plain Folk of the Old South]]
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| * [[Thorstein Veblen]]
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