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Social class is an important theme for historians of the United States for decades. The subject touches on many other elements of American history such as that of changing U.S. education, with greater education attainment leading to expanding household incomes for many social groups.
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-first Century. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-16502-8. Sernau, Scott (2013). Social Inequality in a Global Age (4th edition). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Stiglitz, Joseph. 2012. The Price of Inequality. New York: Norton.
The median wealth of married couples exceeds that of single individuals, regardless of gender and across all age categories. [11]It is impossible to understand people's behavior…without the concept of social stratification, because class position has a pervasive influence on almost everything…the clothes we wear…the television shows we watch…the colors we paint our homes in and the ...
A social class or social stratum is a grouping of people into a set of hierarchical social categories, [1] the most common being the working class, middle class, and upper class. Membership of a social class can for example be dependent on education, wealth, occupation, income, and belonging to a particular subculture or social network. [2]
A pro-marriage equality rally in San Francisco, US Equality symbolSocial equality is a state of affairs in which all individuals within society have equal rights, liberties, and status, possibly including civil rights, freedom of expression, autonomy, and equal access to certain public goods and social services.
Class discrimination, also known as classism, is prejudice or discrimination on the basis of social class. It includes individual attitudes, behaviors, systems of policies and practices that are set up to benefit the upper class at the expense of the lower class .
Social dominance orientation; Social equality; Social equity; Social exclusion; Social inequity aversion; Social justice; Social mobility; Social polarization; Social question; Social stratification; Status–income disequilibrium; Stereotype threat; Structural discrimination in New Zealand; Structural inequality; Structural inequality in ...
Marx's theory of history asserts that in the history of economic systems such as capitalism and feudalism, class struggle is "the central fact of social evolution." [8] Indeed, the first sentence of Chapter 1 of the Communist Manifesto reads: "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles."