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Social Class in the United States
There are no precise guidelines for classes in the United States and several theories attempting to categorize. Most Americans believe, in one of three classes of model. They are in rich countries, in the middle of the class and the poor. America is a multicultural society in the light of its culture, economy, politics and ideology, the different levels of wealth, income, education, occupation and social behaviour. It is sometimes difficult to classify certain groups or persons of a certain class.
A concept that is most common is based on the cultural and economic diversity of the population and presents several of them in the middle class.
“The sociologist Dennis Gilbert, William Thompson and Joseph Hickey James Henslin, and proposed systems at six different income groups. These models have a higher class or a capitalist class, composed of rich and powerful, an upper middle class formed and composed of senior Although paid professionals, a small middle class, made up of semi-professionals, working class, by the volatility of errors blue-collar workers, as well as staff whose work is very routine, and a lower class , according to Gilbert is split between the working class and poor in the sub-layer. ”
“A stratified society is one of inequality, by the differences between human beings, as a higher or lower … it is logical that possible for a company which, in a stratified between graduation continues the ups and downs, without sharpness traits. .. … In reality, there are only a limited number of professions … types of people in similar positions … are developing similar in their mentality and mode of life … they form a pattern, and this creates models of class and so on. “- 1998