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Many Americans, retaining fast to the American Dream and the promise of equal opportunity, claim that social category doesn't matter. Yet the ways we speak and dress, our interactions with authority statistics, the degree of trust we devote strangers, our religious beliefs, our achievements, our senses of morality and of ourselves each is marked by communal class, a robust factor influencing every website of life. In Facing Public Class, communal psychologists Susan Fiske and Hazel Rose Markus, and a team of sociologists, anthropologists, linguists, and legal scholars, look at the countless ways we talk our category position to others and how social class forms our day to day, face-to-face interactions from informal exchanges to interactions at college, work, and home. Facing Social Class exposes the contradiction between the American ideal of equal opportunity and the tough reality of growing inequality, and it shows how this tension is mirrored in cultural ideas and worth, institutional practices, day-to-day social interactions, and psychological tendencies. Contributor Joan Williams examines cultural distinctions between middle and working-class people and shows the way the cultural gap between social category groups can effect from voting procedures and political values to work habits, home life, and communal behaviors. The United States has one of the best degrees of income inequality and one of the cheapest levels of communal flexibility among industrialized nations, yet many Americans continue to agree with the myth that theirs is a classless world. Facing Social Class faces the reality of how communal class operates in our daily lives, why it is so pervasive, and what you can do to ease its effects. This audiobook is publicized by Russell Sage Foundation.
