The New York Times - Class Matters

September 7, 2006, 2:50 am

From The Oprah Winfrey Show : What Class Are You? Inside America’s Taboo Topic, 21 April 2006

Class Matters by The New York Times

Social class remains a powerful force in North American life, its effects more pronounced than most of us realize. From health to religious practice to college education to consumer goods, the differences that distinguish the top from the middle from the bottom remain stark, even as social mobility seems to have stagnated.

A team of New York Times reporters has spent more than a year exploring the ways in which classdefined as a combination of income, education, wealth, and occupationinfluences destiny in a society that likes to think of itself as a land of unbounded opportunity. This book takes us on a tour of what they found and what it means for the future.

Customer Rating:


Category: Oprah Winfrey Show, Books from The Oprah Winfrey Show

No Comments »

No comments yet.

RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI

Leave a comment

You must be logged in to post a comment.