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79 relations: Abolitionism in the United States, Affluence in the United States, American gentry, American lower class, American middle class, American upper class, Astor family, Average Joe, Billionaire, Blue-collar worker, Boston, Bourgeoisie, California, Central Valley (California), Clerk, Coachella Valley, Dennis Gilbert (sociologist), Educational attainment in the United States, Elite, Employment, Executive compensation in the United States, Fortune 500, G. William Domhoff, Gender role, Homestead Acts, Household income in the United States, Imperial Valley, Income in the United States, Income inequality in the United States, Infant mortality, Jacksonian democracy, Jeffersonian democracy, Job control (workplace), Larry Bartels, Leonard Beeghley, Life expectancy, Lower middle class, Median income, Mexicans, Middle class, Middle-class squeeze, Migrant worker, Mister Roberts (play), Nouveau riche, Option (finance), Paul Fussell, Personal income in the United States, Pink-collar worker, Post-industrial society, Poverty in the United States, ..., Poverty threshold, Professional association, Racial inequality in the United States, Roman Empire, Roosevelt family, Sharecropping, Simon & Schuster, Slavery in the United States, Social class, Social class in American history, Social group, Social stratification, Society of the United States, Southern United States, Standard of living, Stony Brook University, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Tenant farmer, The Christian Science Monitor, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, United States Census Bureau, United States presidential election, 2000, Upper middle class, W. Lloyd Warner, Wealth in the United States, White-collar worker, Working class in the United States, Working poor. Expand index (29 more) »
Abolitionism in the United States
Abolitionism in the United States was the movement before and during the American Civil War to end slavery in the United States.
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Affluence in the United States
Affluence refers to an individual's or household's economical and financial advantage in comparison to a given reference group.
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American gentry
The American gentry were members of the American upper classes, particularly early in the settlement of the United States.
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American lower class
In the United States, the lower class are those at or near the lower end of the socio-economic hierarchy.
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American middle class
The American middle class is a social class in the United States.
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American upper class
The American upper class is a social group consisting of the people who have the highest social rank and who are usually rich.
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Astor family
The Astor family achieved prominence in business, society, and politics in the United States and the United Kingdom during the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Average Joe
The terms average Joe, ordinary Joe, Joe Sixpack, Joe Lunchbucket, Joe Snuffy, '''Joe Schmo''' (for males) and ordinary Jane, average Jane, and plain Jane (for females), are used primarily in North America to refer to a completely average person, typically an average American.
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Billionaire
A billionaire, in countries that use the short scale number naming system, is a person with a net worth of at least one billion (1,000,000,000, i.e. a thousand million) units of a given currency, usually major currencies such as the United States dollar, the euro or the pound sterling.
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Blue-collar worker
In the United States and (at least some) other English-speaking countries, a blue-collar worker is a working class person who performs manual labor.
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Boston
Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.
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Bourgeoisie
The bourgeoisie is a polysemous French term that can mean.
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California
California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.
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Central Valley (California)
The Central Valley is a flat valley that dominates the geographical center of the U.S. state of California.
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Clerk
A clerk is a white-collar worker who conducts general office tasks, or a worker who performs similar sales-related tasks in a retail environment (a retail clerk).
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Coachella Valley
The Coachella Valley is a desert valley in Southern California which extends for approximately in Riverside County southeast from the San Bernardino Mountains to the northern shore of the Salton Sea.
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Dennis Gilbert (sociologist)
Dennis L. Gilbert (born October 7, 1943 in Bremerton, Washington) is a professor and chair of sociology at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York.
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Educational attainment in the United States
The educational attainment of the U.S. population is similar to that of many other industrialized countries with the vast majority of the population having completed secondary education and a rising number of college graduates that outnumber high school dropouts.
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Elite
In political and sociological theory, the elite (French élite, from Latin eligere) are a small group of powerful people who hold a disproportionate amount of wealth, privilege, political power, or skill in a society.
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Employment
Employment is a relationship between two parties, usually based on a contract where work is paid for, where one party, which may be a corporation, for profit, not-for-profit organization, co-operative or other entity is the employer and the other is the employee.
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Executive compensation in the United States
In the United States, the compensation of company executives is distinguished by the forms it takes and its dramatic rise over the past three decades and wide-ranging criticism leveled against it.
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Fortune 500
The Fortune 500 is an annual list compiled and published by Fortune magazine that ranks 500 of the largest United States corporations by total revenue for their respective fiscal years.
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G. William Domhoff
George William ("Bill") Domhoff, Ph.D. (born August 6, 1936) is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Research Professor of Psychology and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and founding faculty member of UCSC's Cowell College.
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Gender role
A gender role, also known as a sex role, is a social role encompassing a range of behaviors and attitudes that are generally considered acceptable, appropriate, or desirable for people based on their actual or perceived sex or sexuality.
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Homestead Acts
The Homestead Acts were several United States federal laws under which an applicant, upon the satisfaction of certain conditions, could acquire ownership of land, typically called a "homestead.” In all, more than 270 million acres of public land, or nearly 10% of the total area of the U.S., was transferred to 1.6 million homesteaders; most of the homesteads were west of the Mississippi River.
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Household income in the United States
Household income is an economic measure that can be applied to one household, or aggregated across a large group such as a county, city, or the whole country.
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Imperial Valley
The Imperial Valley lies in California's Imperial County.
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Income in the United States
Income in the United States is measured by the United States Department of Commerce either by household or individual.
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Income inequality in the United States
Income inequality in the United States has increased significantly since the 1970s after several decades of stability, meaning the share of the nation's income received by higher income households has increased.
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Infant mortality
Infant mortality refers to deaths of young children, typically those less than one year of age.
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Jacksonian democracy
Jacksonian democracy is a 19th-century political philosophy in the United States that espoused greater democracy for the common man as that term was then defined.
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Jeffersonian democracy
Jeffersonian democracy, named after its advocate Thomas Jefferson, was one of two dominant political outlooks and movements in the United States from the 1790s to the 1820s.
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Job control (workplace)
Job control is a person's ability to influence what happens in his or her work environment, in particular to influence matters that are relevant to his or her personal goals.
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Larry Bartels
Larry Martin Bartels (born May 16, 1956) is an American political scientist.
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Leonard Beeghley
Leonard Beeghley (born December 14, 1946) is Professor Emeritus of sociology at the University of Florida since 1975.
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Life expectancy
Life expectancy is a statistical measure of the average time an organism is expected to live, based on the year of its birth, its current age and other demographic factors including gender.
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Lower middle class
In developed nations across the world, the lower middle class is a sub-division of the greater middle class.
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Median income
Median income is the amount that divides the income distribution into two equal groups, half having income above that amount, and half having income below that amount.
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Mexicans
Mexicans (mexicanos) are the people of the United Mexican States, a multiethnic country in North America.
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Middle class
The middle class is a class of people in the middle of a social hierarchy.
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Middle-class squeeze
The middle-class squeeze is the situation where increases in wages fail to keep up with inflation for middle-income earners leading to a relative decline in real wages, while at the same time, the phenomenon fails to have a similar effect on the top wage earners.
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Migrant worker
A "migrant worker" is a person who either migrates within their home country or outside it to pursue work such as seasonal work.
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Mister Roberts (play)
Mister Roberts is a 1948 play based on the 1946 Thomas Heggen novel of the same name.
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Nouveau riche
"Nouveau riche" (French: 'new rich') is a term, usually derogatory, to describe those whose wealth has been acquired within their own generation, rather than by familial inheritance.
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Option (finance)
In finance, an option is a contract which gives the buyer (the owner or holder of the option) the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell an underlying asset or instrument at a specified strike price on a specified date, depending on the form of the option.
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Paul Fussell
Paul Fussell, Jr. (22 March 1924 – 23 May 2012) was an American cultural and literary historian, author and university professor.
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Personal income in the United States
Personal income is an individual's total earnings from wages, investment interest, and other sources.
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Pink-collar worker
In the United States and (at least some) other English-speaking countries, a pink-collar worker refers to someone working in the care-oriented career field or in jobs historically considered to be "women’s work." This may include jobs in nursing, teaching, secretarial work, waitressing, or child care.
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Post-industrial society
In sociology, the post-industrial society is the stage of society's development when the service sector generates more wealth than the manufacturing sector of the economy.
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Poverty in the United States
Poverty is a state of deprivation, lacking the usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions.
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Poverty threshold
The poverty threshold, poverty limit or poverty line is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country.
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Professional association
A professional association (also called a professional body, professional organization, or professional society) is usually a nonprofit organization seeking to further a particular profession, the interests of individuals engaged in that profession and the public interest.
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Racial inequality in the United States
Racial inequality in the United States refers to social advantages and disparities that affect different races within the United States.
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Roman Empire
The Roman Empire (Imperium Rōmānum,; Koine and Medieval Greek: Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, tr.) was the post-Roman Republic period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterized by government headed by emperors and large territorial holdings around the Mediterranean Sea in Europe, Africa and Asia.
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Roosevelt family
The Roosevelt family is an American business and political family from New York whose members have included two United States Presidents, a First Lady, and various merchants, politicians, inventors, clergymen, artists, and socialites.
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Sharecropping
Sharecropping is a form of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land.
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Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster, Inc., a subsidiary of CBS Corporation, is an American publishing company founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard Simon and Max Schuster.
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Slavery in the United States
Slavery in the United States was the legal institution of human chattel enslavement, primarily of Africans and African Americans, that existed in the United States of America in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Social class
A social class is a set of subjectively defined concepts in the social sciences and political theory centered on models of social stratification in which people are grouped into a set of hierarchical social categories, the most common being the upper, middle and lower classes.
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Social class in American history
Social class has been an important theme for historians of the United States for over decades.
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Social group
In the social sciences, a social group has been defined as two or more people who interact with one another, share similar characteristics, and collectively have a sense of unity.
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Social stratification
Social stratification is a kind of social differentiation whereby a society groups people into socioeconomic strata, based upon their occupation and income, wealth and social status, or derived power (social and political).
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Society of the United States
The society of the United States is based on Western culture, and has been developing since long before the United States became a country with its own unique social and cultural characteristics such as dialect, music, arts, social habits, cuisine, folklore, etc.
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Southern United States
The Southern United States, also known as the American South, Dixie, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a region of the United States of America.
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Standard of living
Standard of living refers to the level of wealth, comfort, material goods, and necessities available to a certain socioeconomic class in a certain geographic area, usually a country.
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Stony Brook University
The State University of New York at Stony Brook (also known as Stony Brook University or SUNY Stony Brook) is a public sea-grant and space-grant research university in the eastern United States.
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Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as the Food Stamp Program, provides food-purchasing assistance for low- and no-income people living in the United States.
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Tenant farmer
A tenant farmer is one who resides on land owned by a landlord.
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The Christian Science Monitor
The Christian Science Monitor (CSM) is a nonprofit news organization that publishes daily articles in electronic format as well as a weekly print edition.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal is a U.S. business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City.
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United States Census Bureau
The United States Census Bureau (USCB; officially the Bureau of the Census, as defined in Title) is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy.
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United States presidential election, 2000
The United States presidential election of 2000 was the 54th quadrennial presidential election.
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Upper middle class
In sociology, the upper middle class is the social group constituted by higher status members of the middle class.
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W. Lloyd Warner
William Lloyd Warner (October 26, 1898 – May 23, 1970) was a pioneering anthropologist noted for applying the techniques of his discipline to contemporary American culture.
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Wealth in the United States
Wealth in the United States is commonly measured in terms of net worth, which is the sum of all assets, including the market value of real estate, like a home, minus all liabilities.
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White-collar worker
In many countries (such as Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, United Kingdom, and United States), a white-collar worker is a person who performs professional, managerial, or administrative work.
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Working class in the United States
In the United States, the concept of a working class remains vaguely defined, and classifying people or jobs into class can be contentious.
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Working poor
The working poor are working people whose incomes fall below a given poverty line due to lack of work hours and/or low wages.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_class_in_the_United_States
