The typical middle class child lives in a class subculture where he or she is surrounded by educated, cultivated persons who speak the language relatively correctly, enjoy books, music, travel and gentile parties. At school, the typical middle class child is greeted by a teacher whose dress, spech, and norms of conduct are more or less like his or her own. At school, the typical lower class child is greeted by a middle class teacher who may see an unwashed, unfed, unruly child who violates many of the educational system's rules. School is foreign and different from this child's homelife. The Marriage Gradient - for men, income level is positively related to the probability of gfetting married.
Men tend to marry down in social class.
The proporiton of married men increases and income level increases. The pool of eligible mates decreases for women as they get older, richer, and more educated. The pool of eligible mate for men increases as they get older, richer, and more educated. Birth rate and Social Class - there are 94 births per 1000 women in the lower classes compared to 48 births per 1000 women in the middle classes. It is indebtedness that causes marital instability - and the insistance of having more material goods.