The New Middle Classes: Life-Styles, Status Claims and Political Orientations

Preface ; R.Jackall & A.J.Vidich - Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction - PART I EMERGENCE OF THE NEW MIDDLE CLASSES: THEORETICAL PROBLEMS AND HISTORICAL CHANGES - The Discovery of the New Middle Classes; V. Burris - The New Middle Classes; E.Lederer & J.Marschak - Middle Class Notions and Lower Class Theory; H.Speier - The Growth of the New Middle Classes; A.Giddens - PART II THE STATUS SPHERE AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CLASSES - The Status Sphere; H.H.Gerth & C.Wright Mills - The Foundations of Social Rank and Respect; H.Speier - Bureaucracy and Masked Class Membership; H.Speier - Economic Class, Status and Personality; J.Bensman & A.J.Vidich - PART III THE NEW MIDDLE CLASSES IN THE UNITED STATES - The New Middle Class I; C.Wright Mills - The New Middle Class II; C.Wright Mills - The Transformation of the Black Middle Class; A.S.Evans Jr - Changes in the Life Styles of American Classes; J.Bensman& A.J.Vidich - PART IV THE NEW CLASS SYSTEM IN THE UNITED STATES LIFE STYLES AND POLITICAL ORIENTATIONS - The New Class System and Its Life Styles; J.Bensman & A.J.Vidich - Liberalism and the New Middle Classes ; A.J.Vidich & J.Bensman - The New Conservatism: Political Ideology and Class Structure; M.W.Hughey - The Politics of the Middle Class in a National Crisis: The Case of Watergate; A.J.Vidich - Class and Politics in an Epoch of Declining Abundance; A.J.Vidich - Index