Full name: Class: A Guide Through the American Status System

Author: Paul Fussell Year: 1983 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Sociology, Non Fiction, Humor, History, Economics, Politics Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780671792251 0671792253

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. Similar books: Bobos in Paradise by David Brooks Snobbery by Joseph Epstein Coming Apart by Charles Murray Bowling Alone by Robert D. Putnam BAD by Paul Fussell Unequal Childhoods by Annette Lareau Arguing with Idiots by Glenn Beck Regulating the Poor by Frances Fox Piven America by Chris Hedges The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein The Establishment by Owen Jones The Accidental Superpower by Peter Zeihan Blowout by Rachel Maddow The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein Strangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Russell Hochschild White Rage by Carol Anderson Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano Bushwhacked by Molly Ivins Chavs by Owen Jones Shade by Pete Souza