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Subtitle: A Guide Through the American Status System
Edition: 1st ed. edition
Publisher: Summit Books
Published: October 1983
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780671449919
Subjects: United States; Social status; Sociology; Humor; Poverty; Sociology - General; Social life and customs; Social classes
First sentence: Although most Americans sense that they live within an extremely complicated system of social classes and suspect that much of what is thought and done here is prompted by considerations of status, the subject has remained murky.
Table of contents: title: A touchy subject -- An anatomy of the classes -- Appearance counts -- About the house -- Consumption, recreation, bibelots -- The life of the mind -- “Speak, that I may see thee” -- Climbing and sinking, and prole drift -- The X way out -- Appendix : exercise and the mail bag.