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Author Vanneman, Reeve

Title The American perception of class / Reeve Vanneman and Lynn Weber Cannon
Published Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1987

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Description 1 online resource (363 pages)
Series Labor and social change
Labor and social change.
Contents American exceptionalism -- Blaming the victim: psychological reductionism in class theory -- Class divisions and status rankings: the social psychology of American stratification -- Who is working class? -- Class images -- The decline of social class? -- U.S. and British workers: same consciousness, different opportunities -- Docile women? Pin money, homemaking, and class conflict -- Fear and loathing? Ethnic hostility and working-class consciousness -- Militant Blacks? The persistent significance of class -- The American dream -- Reversing the focus: capitalist strength and working-class consciousness
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: page
Subject Social classes -- United States
Working class -- United States.
Class consciousness -- United States
Social conflict -- United States
Working class.
Class consciousness.
Social classes.
Social conflict.
United States.
Form Electronic book
Author Cannon, Lynn Weber
ISBN 9781439918029
1439918023