The Status Seekers: An Exploration of Class Behavior in America and the Hidden Barriers that Affect You, Your Community, Your FutureStudy of the informal class system in America and the characteristics of the individual social levels. |
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A Classless Society? | 3 |
An Upsetting | 17 |
A Diploma Elite | 31 |
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