The Association of Social Class and Lifestyles: Persistence in American Sociability, 1974 to 2010.
Despite the burgeoning research on lifestyles, we have surprisingly little evidence to answer one of the literature’s founding questions: Is the association between social class and lifestyles disappearing? I explore this inquiry with data from the past four decades. In analyzing the class-lifestyle...
| Publicado en: | American Sociological Review Vol. 78; no. 4; pp. 633 - 662 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Aug2013
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