Class Counts : Education, Inequality, and the Shrinking Middle Class.

By: Ornstein, AllanMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Description: 1 online resource (371 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780742573727Subject(s): Education, Higher -- Social aspects -- United States | Elite (Social sciences) -- United States | Middle class -- United States | Poverty -- United States | Power (Social sciences) -- United States | Social classes -- United States | Wealth -- United StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Class Counts : Education, Inequality, and the Shrinking Middle ClassDDC classification: 305.550973 LOC classification: HN90.S6 -- O76 2007ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- What this Book Is About -- Dedication -- 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.
Summary: 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.
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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- What this Book Is About -- Dedication -- 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.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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