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Synopsis
The New Class Society provides a fresh, lucid, and compelling exploration of U.S. class structure, social inequities, and the fading American Dream. This third edition extends the author's distributional model of class analysis and class-based power networks model developed in earlier editions. The narrative has been revised and new, recent examples of topics, issues, and events are included that illustrate how the authors' approach to class analysis directly relates to today's news, social issues, and global developments. The book demonstrates how and why, over the last thirty years, class inequalities in the U.S. have been widened, hardened, and have been legitimized.
The text includes new "Class Issues in the Media" sidebar readings at the end of each chapter and, like earlier editions, is written for a wide audience featuring many insightful figures, tables, and cartoons. This book is an essential text for students and citizens interested in understanding the nature and significance of class structures and inequalities in the U.S. today.
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Robert Perrucci is professor of sociology at Purdue University and president of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. He has served as associate editor of the American Sociological Review, and editor of the American Sociologist, Social Problems, and Contemporary Sociology.
Earl Wysong is professor of sociology at Indiana University Kokomo. He is the author of High Risk and High Stakes: Health Professionals, Policy, and Politics.
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Perrucci and Wysong vividly document the end of the middle class and the shameful reality of a two-tiered America. This is sociology that speaks truth to power, opens the conversation we need about social class, and exposes the illusions of the American Dream. Required reading for every American concerned with America. (Charles Derber)
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- PublisherRowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0742545539
- ISBN 13 9780742545533
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number3
- Number of pages468
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