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Class Matters
by The New York Times
from Times Books

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• Class Matters - and This Book Documents How
  I read the articles from which the book comes. And they prove that your income, occupation, and personal financial resources have a major impact on the quality of your education, health care, housing and even your place of worship. It affects with whom you socialize. And this also has an impact on what class your child is likely to end up in when he or she graduates.
  

• Very insightful
  I really liked this book. It really gave me a new perspective on viewing class and wealth in a way that I hadn't thought of before. I wasn't aware that there was still such a distinction between "old money" and "new money". I really found the book easy to read with a lot of interesting information. I would recommend this book to everyone.

• Why Doesn't Gender Matter?
  "Class Matters" is an insightful examination of our seemingly "classless" society, indeed.
  The authors do a thorough job of discussing how upbringing, education, race, and ethnicity can be determinants one's class standing as an adult. However, the authors fail to discuss a key element here: gender. Doesn't gender often determine class? Have the authors forgotten the age-old debate about men making more money than women in the U.S., and why this might be so?
  Just reading the responses of some of... more info

• We are not a classless society
  I read two of the articles in this book when they originally came out in the NY Times and I'm glad they are out in a book form so that they can be read by everyone. The sociologist James Loewen in his book, Lies My Teacher Taught Me, said that the way history is taught in American high schools makes us "stupider" about social class because the subject is entirely avoided. Many Americans think we live in a classless society, one big, happy middle class, though the contrary is true (look how suburban... more info

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