Class: A Guide Through the American Status SystemSimon and Schuster, 1992 - 202 oldal 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. |
Tartalomjegyzék
A Touchy Subject | 15 |
An Anatomy of the Classes | 24 |
in Appearance Counts | 51 |
About the House | 76 |
The Life of the Mind | 128 |
vn Speak That I May See Thee | 151 |
vin Climbing and Sinking and Prole Drift | 170 |
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Bibliográfiai információk
| Cím | Class: A Guide Through the American Status System A Touchstone book |
| Szerző | Paul Fussell |
| Kiadás | illusztrált, újranyomás |
| Kiadó | Simon and Schuster, 1992 |
| ISBN | 0671792253, 9780671792251 |
| Terjedelem | 202 oldal |
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