AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF SOCIAL CLASS AWARENESS.
The article presents a study related to the social class awareness in the United States. The study seeks to delineate the social class awareness of a southern city by describing the variety and extent of perceptions of social class existing in the white adult population, and relating differences in...
| Publicado en: | Social Forces Vol. 36; no. 2; pp. 117 - 122 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Dec57
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