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Class: A Guide Through the American Status System
| Title | Class: A Guide Through the American Status System |
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| Date | 2024-10-14 20:19:45 |
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Desciption
The bestselling, comprehensive, and carefully researched guide to the ins-and-outs of the American class system with a detailed look at the defining factors of each group, from customs to fashion to housing.Based on careful research and told with grace and wit, Paul Fessell shows how everything people within American society do, say, and own reflects their social status. Detailing the lifestyles of each class, from the way they dress and where they live to their education and hobbies, Class is sure to entertain, enlighten, and occasionally enrage readers as they identify their own place in society and see how the other half lives. Read more
Review
This book is not boring or dry, instead almost comedic at times. A fun intellectually stimulating read examining the nature of society as a whole.While reading it quickly becomes clear the book was written in the 80s which results in many of the examples and comparisons seeming a bit odd or irrelevant; however, in general the ideas and the theme of the text remains true and an interesting discussion of class in America. I would appreciate a second edition bringing the book up to date with modern examples and discussions. The addition of a chapter discussing the changes in class over the decades would be an interesting addition to help connect the two editions (if one were made).
