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Social class

caddis — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 21:49:42 -0800

Social Class Calculator From the NYT series on social class. What is social class in America? Little has changed in fifty years, or has it?

"I look up to him, because he is upper-class. But I look down on him, because he is lower-class."

Aloysius Bear — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 02:07:28 -0800

In Britain: Upper class, Upper middle class, Middle class, Lower middle class, Working class. An American on class.

Becoming the best within society's web.

daksya — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 23:02:15 -0800

Class in American society, a survey by the Economist.

Another take on class war

MattD — Sun, 29 May 2005 19:49:46 -0800

"They [the bipartisan elite] have imposed a public morality that affords maximum sexual opportunity for themselves and guarantees maximum domestic chaos for those lower down." While a lot of people (okay, maybe just me) have criticized David Brooks' column as an only-infrequently-successful attempt to channel Malcom Gladwell for the McCain-Specter set, I think he may have stumbled onto a provocative insight here.

lbergstr — Fri, 29 Jun 2001 14:03:53 -0800

Michael Young's critique of the meritocracy is brilliant, subversive and quite possibly based on faulty assumptions. "It is good sense to appoint individual people to jobs on their merit. It is the opposite when those who are judged to have merit of a particular kind harden into a new social class without room in it for others."