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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807731603321

Autore

Ornstein Allan C

Titolo

Class counts : education, inequality, and the shrinking middle class / / Allan Ornstein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, MD, : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, Inc., c2007

ISBN

0-7425-4741-8

0-7425-7372-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (371 p.)

Disciplina

305.5/50973

Soggetti

Social classes - United States

Poverty - United States

Wealth - United States

Education, Higher - Social aspects - United States

Middle class - United States

Elite (Social sciences) - United States

Power (Social sciences) - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Dedication; What this Book Is About; Introduction: For Readers with Intellectual Pizzazz; 1 Historical Thoughts of Equality and Inequality; 2 1776-And Beyond: Elitist versus Enlightened Thought; 3 Patrician Influence and Social/Educational Thought; 4 What Is Equality?; 5 Education, Mobility, and the American Dream; 6 The Golden Years Are Over; 7 World Inequality; 8 Wishful Thinking: Recommendations and Solutions; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Class counts. Class differences and class warfare have existed since the beginning of western civilization, but the gap in income and wealth between the rich (top 10 percent) and the rest has increased steadily in the last twenty-five years.