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Chapter 1: Social Class in America Karl Marx Max Weber ThreeIssues and Ten Variables What Are Social Classes? An American ClassStructure Is the American Class Structure Changing? Conclusion KeyTerms Defined in the Glossary Suggested Readings Chapter 2: Position andPrestige W. Lloyd Warner: Prestige Classes in Yankee City PrestigeClass as a Concept How Many Classes? Class Structure of the MetropolisPrestige of Occupation Occupations and Social Classes People Like UsConclusion: Perception of Rank and Strata Key Terms Defined in theGlossary Suggested Readings Chapter 3: Social Class, Occupation, andSocial Change Middletown: 1890 and 1924 Middletown RevisitedIndustrialization and the Transformation of the National Class StructureThe National Upper Class The Industrial Working Class The New MiddleClass National Occupational System The Transformations of the AmericanOccupational Structure From Agricultural to Postindustrial SocietyWomen Workers in Postindustrial Society Transformation of the BlackOccupational Structure Wages in the Age of Growing Inequality GrowingInequality of Wages: Why? Harrison and Bluestone: New Corporate StrategiesFrank and Cook: Winner Take All Conclusion Key Terms Defined in theGlossary Suggested Readings Chapter 4: Wealth and Income The IncomeParade Lessons from the Parade The Distribution of Income Sources ofIncome Income Shares Taxes and Transfers: The Government as Robin Hood?How Many Poor? Women and the Distribution of Household Income TheDistribution of Wealth Trends in the Distribution of Wealth Trends inthe Distribution of Income Income Dynamics Changing Federal Tax RatesConclusion Key Terms Defined in the Glossary Suggested ReadingsChapter 5: Socialization, Association, Lifestyles, and Values Bourdieu:The Varieties of Capital Children's Conception of Social Class Kohn:Class and Socialization Lareau: Child Rearing Observed School andMarriage Marriage Styles Blue Collar Marriages and Middle Class ModelsSocial Class and Domestic Violence Informal Association Among AdultsFormal Associations Separate Lives Conclusion Key Terms Defined inthe Glossary Suggested Readings Chapter 6: Social Mobility: The StructuralContext How Much Mobility? Income Mobility Social Mobility of WomenCirculation and Structural Mobility Declining Social MobilityConclusion Key Terms Defined in the Glossary Suggested Readings Chapter7: Family, Education, and Career Blau and Duncan: Analyzing MobilityModels Jencks on Equality Who Goes to College? College and theCareers of Women and Minorities Conclusion Key Terms Defined in theGlossary Suggested Readings Chapter 8: Elites, the Capitalist Class, andPolitical Power Three Perspectives on Power Mills: The National PowerElite Mills, His Critics, and the Problem of Elite Cohesion Power Eliteor Ruling Class? Who Rules? The National Capitalist Class: EconomicBasis The National Capitalist Class: Social Basis The NationalCapitalist Class: Participation in Government Money and PoliticsBusiness Lobbies Policy Planning Groups Indirect Mechanisms ofCapitalist Class Influence The Capitalist Class Resurgence ConclusionKey Terms Defined in the Glossary Suggested Readings Chapter 9: ClassConsciousness and Class Conflict Marx and the Origins of ClassConsciousness Richard Centers and Class Identification Correlates ofClass Identification Married Women and Class Identification ClassIdentification, Political Opinion, and Voting Bott: Frames of ReferenceElections and the Democratic Class Struggle Social Class and PartyIdentification and Support for Social Programs Class and PoliticalParticipation Trends in Class Partisanship Class Conflict and the LaborMovement The Postwar Armistice: Unions in the Age of Shared ProsperityLabor in Decline Conclusion Key Terms Defined in the GlossarySuggested Readings Chapter 10: The Poor, the Underclass, and Public PolicyThe Beginnings of Welfare: Roosevelt Rediscovery of Poverty: Kennedy andJohnson The Official Definition of Poverty How Many Poor? Who Arethe Poor? Trends in Poverty The Underclass and the Transitory PoorRestructuring Welfare The Mystery of Persistent Poverty ConclusionKey Terms Defined in the Glossary Suggested Readings Chapter 11: TheAmerican Class Structure and Growing Inequality How Many Classes AreThere? The Capitalist Class The Upper Middle Class The Middle ClassThe Working Class The Working Poor The Underclass GrowingInequality Why? Straws in the Wind Glossary Bibliography Note onStatistical Sources