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The american class system




who belongs tobr /
Name of the class

the characteristic


-power elite:


*multi millionaires


*business inventors


*financiers


-high-prestige politicians


-military leaders



The ruling class



-top of America's society


-a "good" family name, which could


be traced back to the WASPs*


-social, political and financial power


until today


-professionals


(doctors, lawyers)


-business executives


-managers


-technologists



The upper middle class

-people who are wealthy and often


have a doctor's degree


-schoolteachers


-social workers


-small businessmen


-shopkeepers


-white-collar workers (clerks)


-blue-collar workers


(skilled craftsmen)

The middle class

-backbone of the nation


-quantitatively and qualitatively


the most powerful force


-have improved their economic


situation


-obtained skilled jobs


-moved into well-to-do-suburbs


-a decade after the violent


sixties a third of the Blacks


managed it to belong to this


class




-assembly-line factory workers


-deliverymen


-truck drivers


-miners


-janitors


-shop assistants



The working class

-regularly employed or semi-skilled


workers


-unemployed


-casual labourers


-migrant farm workers


-the poor



The poor class/

the underclass

-looked down by everybody else


-live in miserable conditions, in


shabby "downtown" areas


-mostly Blacks or Hispanics


*WASPs.White Anglo-Saxon Protestants

 
 

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