The new class society / Robert Perrucci and Earl Wysong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Perrucci, Robert.

Contributor:

Wysong, Earl, 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social classes--United States.

Social classes.

United States.

United States--Social conditions--1980-2020.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xiii, 299 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [1999]

Summary:

This provocative book refocuses our attention on class interests that are rapidly polarizing can 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.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Class in America 1

Chapter 2 Separate Realities: The Dream and the Iceberg 35

Chapter 3 The Global Economy and the Privileged Class 79

Chapter 4 The Invisible Class Empire 103

Chapter 5 The Information Industry 143

Chapter 6 Educating for Privilege: Dreaming, Streaming, and Creaming 181

Chapter 7 The Pacification of Everyday Life 207

Chapter 8 Class in the Twenty-first Century: Consolidation and Resistance 241.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-292) and index.

ISBN:

0847691721

084769173X

OCLC:

40713789