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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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