Research Catalog

Title

Class in America : an encyclopedia / edited by Robert E. Weir.

Publication

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, ©2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

Weir, Robert E., 1952-

Description

3 volumes : illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

Entries address people, terms, and concepts that help to define social class in America, exploring how perception of class has changed over the years and how class is addressed in politics and contemporary culture.

Subject

• Social classes > United States > Encyclopedias
• Social classes > United States > History > Encyclopedias
• Social classes
• Social conditions
• Soziale Schichtung
• Soziale Klasse
• United States > Social conditions > Encyclopedias
• United States
• USA

Genre/Form

• Encyclopedia
• encyclopedias.
• Encyclopedias.
• History.
• Encyclopédies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• v. 1. A-G -- v. 2. H-P -- v. 3. Q-Z.
• v. 1. A-G -- Abbott, Edith and Grace -- Academia -- Accents and language patterns -- Achievement and ascription -- Adams family -- Addams, Jane -- Advertising -- Affirmative action -- Affluent Society -- African Americans -- Agrarianism -- Agribusiness -- Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) -- Alger, Horatio -- Alienation -- Althusser, Louis -- American dream -- American Enterprise Institute -- American exceptionalism -- American Federation of Labor (AFL) -- American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) -- American Indians -- American Revolution -- Anarchy -- Anglophilia -- Anti-Semitism -- Antitrust laws -- Appalachia -- Appeal to Reason -- Armories -- Aronowitz, Stanley -- Art -- Ascription -- Asian Americans -- Assimilation -- Astor, John Jacob -- Auchincloss, Louis -- Authority -- Bacon's Rebellion -- Baltzell, E. Digby -- Beacon Hill -- Begging and busking -- Bellamy, Edward -- Berger, Victor -- Bernstein, Jared -- Big game hunting -- Bilingualism -- Bill of Rights -- Birth control -- Black conservatism -- Black power -- Blau, Peter Michael -- Blue collar --
• Blue-collar unions -- Blues -- Bluestone, Barry -- Boarding schools -- Boards of directors -- Bobos -- Body image -- Boston Brahmins -- Bourdieu, Pierre -- Bourgeoisie -- Bowling -- Brace, Charles Loring -- Bracero Program -- Buchanan, Pat -- Bush family -- Business aristocracy -- Business cycle -- Campaign financing -- Capitalism -- Carnegie, Andrew -- Casinos -- Caste -- Catholics -- Cattle Kingdom -- CEO -- Chamber of Commerce -- Charity balls -- Chicago School of Economics -- Child labor -- Children and poverty -- Chomsky, Noam -- Civil service -- Civil War -- Class consciousness -- Class definitions -- Class formation -- Class struggle -- Class subcultures -- Classism -- Cloward, Richard Andrew -- Cold War -- Coles, Robert -- Commons, John R. -- Communist Party -- Community colleges -- Company town -- Comparable worth -- Competitiveness -- Conflict theory -- Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) -- Conspicuous consumption -- Consumer Price Index -- Consumerism -- Continuous/discontinuous views of class -- Contradictory class location -- Corporate class -- Country clubs -- Country music -- Creationism -- Creative destruction -- Crime -- Critical elite theory -- Cultural capital -- Cultural tourism -- Culture of poverty -- Culture wars --
• Dahrendorf, Ralf -- Davis, Kingsley -- Davis-Moore thesis -- Day, Dorothy -- Day trading -- Debs, Eugene -- Debutantes -- Deference -- Deindustrialization -- Delmonico's -- Democracy -- Department stores -- Designer goods -- Discontinuous views of class -- Disenfranchisement -- Domhoff, G. William, Jr. -- Dorr Rebellion -- Dot-com bubble -- Dreiser, Theodore -- Drug policy -- Drury, Victor -- Du Bois, W.E.B. -- Dye, Thomas -- Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 (EOA) -- Edge city -- Education -- Ehrenreich, Barbara -- Elitism -- Entitlements -- Environmentalism -- Episcopalians -- Equity pay -- Ethnic enclaves -- Eugenics -- Europhilia -- Evangelicalism -- Factory system -- Faith-based charities -- False consciousness -- Family trust -- Farrell, James -- Fashion -- Federalist Party -- Federalist Society -- Feminization of poverty -- Fifth Avenue -- Film -- First Families of Virginia -- Flat tax -- Floyd, Charles ("Pretty Boy") -- Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley -- Food bank -- Foreign policy establishment -- Fortune magazine -- Foundations -- Fraternalism -- Fraternities and sororities -- Free trade -- Friedman, Milton -- Functional elite theory -- Fundamentalism --
• Galbraith, John Kenneth -- Gambling -- Gangs -- Gated communities -- Gates, Bill -- Gender stratification -- General strike -- Gentrification -- George, Henry -- Ghetto -- Giddens, Anthony -- Gilded Age -- Gilman, Charlotte Perkins -- Glass ceiling -- Globalization -- Gold -- Gold, Mike -- Goldman, Emma -- Goldthrope, John -- Gompers, Samuel -- Gramsci, Antonio -- Grant, Madison -- Grapes of Wrath, The -- Great Depression -- Great Gatsby, The -- Great Society -- Grunge and punk culture -- Guaranteed annual income -- Guthrie, Woody --
• v. 2. H-P -- Hamptons -- Harlem -- Harrington, Michael -- Haywood, "Big Bill" -- Head Start -- Health care -- Hearst family -- Hegemony theory -- Heritage Foundation -- Hidden Injuries of Class, The -- High culture -- Higher education -- Hispanics -- Home ownership -- Homelessness -- Homosexuality -- Housing policy -- Howe, Irving -- Hutchinson, Anne -- Immigration -- Income and inheritance taxes -- Income and wealth -- Indentured servitude -- Individualism -- Industrial reserve army -- Industrial Revolution -- Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) -- Inequality measures -- Inequality theory -- Inheritance tax -- Inner cities -- Institutional discrimination -- Invisible Man -- Irish Americans -- Ivy League -- Jacksonian democracy -- James, Henry -- James, Jesse -- Jazz -- Jewish Americans -- Job Corps -- Job training -- Jungle, The -- Justice (civil) -- Katrina -- Kennedy family -- Kerbo, Harold -- Keynes, John Maynard -- King, martin Luther, Jr. -- Knights of Labor -- Kozol, Jonathan -- Ku Klux Klan -- Labor movement -- Lathrop, Julia -- Latinos and Hispanics -- Law of the jungle -- Law schools -- Legacies -- Legitimation -- Leninism -- Lenski, Gerhard -- Levittown -- Lewis, John L. -- Lewis, Sinclair -- Life chances -- Life expectancy -- Lipset, Seymour Martin -- Literacy -- Literature -- Living wage -- Lobbyists -- London, Jack -- Long, Huey P. -- Lotteries -- Lowell, Josephine Shaw -- Lowell family -- Lowell millworkers -- Lower class -- Luxury goods -- Lynd, Robert Staughton and Helen --
• Magazines -- Maldistribution of wealth -- Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, The -- Managerial class -- Maoism -- Marcantonio, Vito -- Marriage -- Marxism/Marxists -- Mass media -- Masses -- McCarthyism -- McDonald's -- McMansion -- Means of production -- Meany, George -- Medical care -- Mellon family -- Men's clubs -- Mergers and acquisitions -- Meritocracy -- Middle class -- Middletown -- Middling sorts -- Migrant labor -- Military-industrial complex -- Military recruiting -- Mill, John Stuart -- Mills, C. Wright -- Minimum wage -- Molly Maguires -- Monday Night Football -- Monetary system -- Monopoly -- Moore, Wilbert -- Morgan, J.P. -- Mormons -- Movies -- Muckraking -- Mudsill theory -- Multinational corporations -- Municipal socialism -- Museums -- Myers, Gustavus -- Myrdal, Gunnar -- NAACP -- Nader, Ralph -- Native Americans -- Natural aristocracy -- Negative income tax -- Neiman Marcus -- New Deal -- New Deal coalition -- New Left -- New middle class -- New social history -- New York Yankees -- Newport -- Newspaper mergers -- Nob Hill -- Nonprofits -- Norris, Frank -- Nouveau riche --
• Objective method -- O'Hare, Kate Richards -- Okies -- One-parent families -- Organization man -- Other America, The -- Outlaws -- Outsourcing -- Ownership society -- Parochial schools -- Parsons, Albert R. and Lucy -- Parsons, Talcott -- Patriotism -- Pawnbrokers -- Peonage -- Pesotta, Rose -- Petite/petty bourgeoisie -- Philanthropy -- Pink-collar workers -- Piven, Frances Fox -- Planned Parenthood -- Pluralism -- Polanyi, Karl -- Polo -- Poor People's March -- Populism -- Pornography -- Postindustrialism -- Poulantzas, Nicos -- Poverty -- Poverty calculations -- Poverty theory -- Powderly, Terence -- Power -- Power elite -- Presley, Elvis -- Prestige -- Primary (informal) work groups -- Prisons -- Private schools -- Privatization -- Progressive Era -- Progressive/regressive taxation -- Prohibition -- Proletarian literature -- Proletarianization -- Proletariat -- Property rights -- Protectionism -- Protestant work ethic -- Public schools -- Punk and grunge culture -- Puritans -- Pygmalion studies -- Pyramid scheme --
• v. 3. Q-Z -- Quotas -- Race, racism, and racial stratification -- Rap -- Reagan, Ronald -- Reagan Democrats -- Real income/real wages -- Reconstruction -- Red Diaper Babies -- Red Scare -- Regionalism -- Religion -- Religious fundamentalism -- Rent strikes -- Reputational method -- Reuther, Walter P. -- Rifkin, Jeremy -- Riis, Jacob -- Rise of Silas Lapham, The -- Robber barons -- Robertson, Pat -- Rock 'n' roll -- Rockefeller family -- Roosevelt, Eleanor -- Roosevelt, Franklin D. -- Roosevelt, Theodore -- Ruling class -- Rustin, Bayard -- Salary -- Sales tax -- Saloons and bars -- Sanders, Bernard -- Sanger, Margaret -- School tracking -- School vouchers -- Schor, Juliet -- Seeger, Pete -- Segregation -- Self-fulfulling prophecy -- Self-reliance -- Seneca Falls convention -- Sennett, Richard -- Servant class -- Settlement houses -- Seven Sisters -- Sexuality -- Sharecroppers and tenant farmers -- Shays's rebellion -- Shopping -- Silicon Valley -- Silver -- Simmel, Georg -- Sinclair, Upton -- Single-parent families -- Single tax -- Sit-down strikes/sit-ins -- Skull & Bones -- Slavery --
• Slavocracy -- Slumming -- Slums -- Small business/small farms -- Social climber -- Social closure -- Social Darwinism -- Social Gospel -- Social mobility -- Social networks -- Social Register -- Social reproduction -- Social Security -- Socialism -- Socialist Party -- Socialite -- Socioeconomic status (SES) -- Sombart, Werner -- Soup kitchens -- Southern Baptists -- Southern Tenant Farmers Union -- (STFU) -- Special interests -- Split labor market -- Sports -- Springsteen, Bruce -- Status -- Status attainment -- Status inconsistency -- Status symbols -- Steffens, Lincoln -- Stereotypes -- Stiffed -- Stock market -- Stokes, Rose Pastor -- Stone, I.F. -- Stratification theory -- Strikes -- Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) -- Style -- Subjective method -- Suburbia -- Supply-side economics -- Survival of the fittest -- Symphony orchestras -- Tally's Corner -- Taxation -- Television -- Terkel, Studs -- Thernstrom, Abigail and Stephan -- Think tanks -- Thomas, Norman -- Thurow, Lester -- Tokenism -- Transportation -- Trickle-down theory -- Trophy wives -- Trotskyists -- Trump, Donald -- Tuxedo Park -- Two Americas --
• Underclass -- Underemployment -- Underserving poor -- Unemployment -- Unskilled labor -- Upper class -- Urban renewal -- Vacations -- Vanderbilt family -- Veblen, Thorstein -- Victorianism -- Voluntarism -- Vo-tech schools -- Voting rights -- Wage gap -- Wage slavery -- Wages -- Wagner Act -- Wald, Lillian -- Wall Street Journal, The -- Wallerstein, Immanuel -- Wal-Mart -- War on poverty -- Warner, W. Lloyd -- WASP -- Wealth -- Wealth against Commonwealth -- Weber, Max -- Welfare -- Westard expansion -- Wharton, Edith -- Wharton School of Business -- Whiskey Rebellion -- White backlash -- White-collar work -- White trash -- Wilson, William Julius -- Winfrey, Oprah -- Winthrop, John -- Womens' clubs -- Work ethic -- Working class -- Working poor -- Wright, Eric Olin -- Wright, Richard -- Yachting -- Yuppies -- Zinn, Howard -- Zones of transition -- Zoning.

ISBN

• 9780313337192
• 0313337195
• 9780313337208
• 0313337209
• 9780313337215
• 0313337217
• 9780313342455
• 0313342458

LCCN

2007008193

OCLC

• ocm85766107
• 85766107
• SCSB-1504490

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library