Hamilton College Professor of Sociology Dennis Gilbert discusses the sociological issues involved in class and class structure in American in several categories. The contents include:The Dimensions of Class; Position and Prestige; Social Class, Occupation, and Social Change; Wealth and Income; Socialization, Association, Lifestyles, and Values; Social Mobility: The Structural Context; Family, Education and Career; Elites, the Capitalist Class, and Political Power; Class Consiousness and Class Conflict; The Poor, the Underclass, and Public Policy; and The American Class structure and Growing Inequality.

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"Current, concise treatment of America's ever-changing class structure"
-Thomson Learning