Earl Wysong, Robert Perrucci, David Wright

The New Class Society

Goodbye American Dream?

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The New Class Society introduces students to the sociology of class structure and inequality. The fourth edition demonstrates how and why class differences in the United States have become more entrenched than ever. Revised and reorganized, this edition features a new introduction and shorter chapters that cover a wider range of topics-from the Great Recession to how electronic media shape our perceptions of class.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Fourth Edition
• Seitenzahl: 404
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 806g
• ISBN-13: 9781442205277
• ISBN-10: 144220527X
• Artikelnr.: 37459624

Autorenporträt

By Earl Wysong; Robert Perrucci and David Wright

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Class in America:
The Way We Were 2 The New American Class Structure 3 The New Economy and
the New Class Structure 4 The Global Economy and Class Inequalities 5 How
the Middle Class Died 6 Conflicting Class Interests and Class War 7 The
Invisible Class Empire 8 Political Finance: It's Money That Matters 9
Policy Planning and Classwide Lobbying 10 The Information Industry 11
Educating for Privilege: Dreaming, Streaming, and Creaming 12 The
Pacification of Everyday Life 13 The Culture Industry and Pacification 14
Class in the Twenty-first Century Bibliography Index About the Authors