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CHAPTER 3 Why Does the Working Class Resent the Poor? REMEMBER WHEN PRESIDENT OBAMA sold Obamacare by constantly stressing that ...

think of medical technicians, factory workers, bus drivers. Men’s jobs, and some women’s, are physically demanding: consider con ...

poor. This resentment reflects the realities of working-class lives combined with a woeful lack of graduate-level training in po ...

Why Does the Working Class Resent the Poor? ...

Source: The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration by Michèle Lamont (Cambridge, MA ...

fewer crimes, are in better health, live longer, make more money, drop out of high school less frequently, and finish college mo ...

concrete economic consequences. In the community Sherman studied, only those in good moral standing were considered for the few ...

CHAPTER 4 Why Does the Working Class Resent Professionals but Admire the Rich? MEMBERS OF THE ELITE tend to assume that working- ...

to public school, and everyone watched the evening news with Walter Cronkite. Today, the professional elite sends their kids to ...

“steaming roast beef, gravy, potatoes, okra, green beans, corn bread, and sweetened ice tea”^56 —large portions of familiar favo ...

business careers. Working-class entertaining is designed to denote a space apart from jobs, not be an extension of them. The goa ...

was seldom entirely clear about what was meant by tradition,” admits Sherman, but the rural whites she interviewed were all for ...

professionals. The professional-class values of sophistication, boundary breaking, and creativity are all useful for getting and ...

CHAPTER 5 Why Doesn’t the Working Class Just Move to Where the Jobs Are? ONE BIG QUESTION pundits and commentators mull over is ...

also tend to stay close to home, for many of the same reasons.) Moving for a job doesn’t strike the professional elite as a big ...

classmates in Chicago anyway. But moving means something very different for working- class people. Remember the fellow who hisse ...

begins early: Annette Lareau notes that children often play with cousins and that “it would be hard to overstate the importance ...

CHAPTER 6 Why Doesn’t the Working Class Get with It and Go to College? EDUCATIONAL LEVELS DO NOT just reflect social class, they ...

The working class is not flocking to college. In the past three decades, college graduates’ earnings have climbed to 60% higher ...

middle three quintiles of family income go to very selective schools, and less than 3% go to elites or Ivys.^101 The American hi ...