Class in America: An Encyclopedia, Volumes 1-3 - download pdf or read online

By Robert E. Weir

ISBN-10: 0313337195

ISBN-13: 9780313337192

In the USA, social classification ranks with gender, race, and ethnicity in deciding upon the values, actions, political habit, and lifestyles possibilities of members. so much students agree at the value of sophistication, even if they generally disagree on what it's and the way it affects american citizens. This A-Z encyclopedia, the 1st to target category within the usa, surveys the breadth of sophistication strata all through our heritage, for top college scholars to most people. category is illuminated in 525 essay entries on major humans, phrases, theories, courses, associations, eras, ethnic teams, locations, and lots more and plenty more.

This beneficial set is an authoritative, attention-grabbing resource for in-demand info on key elements of our tradition and society and is helping researchers to slender down a wide subject. classification is printed from angles that regularly intersect: via historical past, with entries akin to Founding Fathers, the economic Revolution, Westward growth; via economics, with entries resembling Dot.com Bubble, Robber Barons, Chicago college of Economics, Lottery, salary Slaves, fiscal equivalent chance Act, inventory industry, Inheritance Taxes, Wal-Mart, Welfare; via social symptoms resembling Conspicuous intake, the Hamptons, WASP, Homelessness, Social hiking; via politics with entries akin to Anarchism, Braceros, background beginning, Communist celebration, Kennedy kinfolk; and during tradition via entries equivalent to nation tune, the good Gatsby, tv, and Studs Terkel. type can be approached from ethnic, sexual, non secular, academic, and neighborhood angles. unique beneficial properties contain an advent, timeline, prompt studying in line with access, cross-references, reader's consultant to issues, and thorough index. pattern entries: Immigration, schooling, exertions flow, Pink-Collar employees, AFL-CIO, moves, nice melancholy, Jacob Riis, Literature, the Rockefellers, Slavery, tune, Academia, family members, Suburbia, McMansions, Taxation, Segregation, Racism, Ivy League, Robber Barons, Philanthropists, Socialites, faith, Welfare, the yankee Dream, Dot.com Millionaires, equivalent chance, Founding Fathers, salary Slaves, business Revolution, Capitalism, Economics, Appalachia, Horse Racing, Gender, Communist celebration, nation golf equipment, faith, American Indians, Conspicuous intake, Studs Terkel, movie, Class-Consciousness, paintings Ethic, Media, tv, Puritans, Homelessness, prestige Symbols, Assimilation/Melting Pot, paintings, Westward enlargement, Poverty, the nice Gatsby, inventory industry, operating negative, Gated groups, the Hamptons, Social mountaineering, Crime, Lottery, Elitism, WASP, American Dream, Noam Chomsky, Fortune Magazine

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Addams’s involvement in labor, suffrage, and peace movements, and especially her opposition to American involvement in World War I, stirred public criticism. She was castigated in the press and expelled from the Daughters of the American Revolution, but in 1918 she worked for Herbert Hoover’s Department of Food Administration to provide relief supplies to the women and children of enemy 14 ★ ADVERTISING nations. Many thought her a traitor for her pacifism, and in the 1920s, she was called the most dangerous woman in America for opposing the mass arrests and deportation of suspected radicals during the Red Scare.

This so-called standard form did not displace regional variations in Britain or North America until free public education became widespread in the late nineteenth century. What came to be known as Standard English is thus a top-down imposition from the British upper classes, particularly the aristocracy and social climbers in the middle class. Even now, an affected upper-class dialect—sometimes called “BBC English” in reference to the fact that broadcasters for the British Broadcasting Corporation once had to master it—remains an external marker of good breeding.

Drivers are portrayed as successful, wealthy, happy individuals with an abundance of leisure time to enjoy their car. The reality is that those in lower classes who buy these cars in an effort to attain a higher status often have less wealth and leisure and therefore less happiness because of the increased expense required to pay for the high-end car. These marketing tools work because material things are connected both to how a person perceives himself or herself and to how others perceive him or her in American society.

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