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Professor of Sociology Dennis Gilbert is the author of a new book, Mexico's Middle Class in the Neoliberal Era (The University of Arizona Press, March, 2007). Gilbert who joined the Hamilton faculty in 1976, earned a Ph.D. in sociology from Cornell University. His primary research interests are Latin American and American class system. He is also the author of Sandinistas: the Party and the Revolution (1988) and The American Class Structure in an Age of Growing Inequality (2003).

This text presents the reader with a synthesis of the most pertinent social science research on class structure in the United States. The book draws an organizing framework from classical theory and singles out the most essential empirical studies on social stratification in contemporary America for detailed examination.

Professor of Sociology Dennis Gilbert is the author of Sandinistas, a book about the Nicaraguan revolution and the party that leads it, the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN).