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



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Autore: Ornstein Allan C Visualizza persona
Titolo: Class counts : education, inequality, and the shrinking middle class / / Allan Ornstein Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Lanham, MD, : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, Inc., c2007
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (371 p.)
Disciplina: 305.5/50973
Soggetto topico: 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
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Class counts  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-7425-4741-8
0-7425-7372-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910807731603321
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