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People like us : social class in America /

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How do income, family background, education, attitudes, aspirations, and even appearance mark someone as a member of a particular social class? In travels across the U.S. in interviews with people from diverse socioeconomic groups, this film examines how social class in America has as much influenc...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Cheeks, Rudy (Narrator)
Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:English language soundtrack with optional English closed-captions.
Published: New York, NY : Center for New American Media, [2014]
Subjects:
Anderson High School (Austin, Tex.)
Social classes > United States.
Social classes > Case studies.
Social mobility > Case studies.
Social stratification > Case studies.
Class consciousness > Case studies.
Upper class > Social conditions.
Middle class.
Working class > Social conditions.
United States > Social conditions > 1980-2020.
United States > Social life and customs > 1971-
Austin (Tex.) > Social life and customs.
Classes sociales > États-Unis.
Classes sociales > Études de cas.
Mobilité sociale > Études de cas.
Stratification sociale > Études de cas.
Conscience de classe > Études de cas.
Classes supérieures > Conditions sociales.
Travailleurs > Conditions sociales.
États-Unis > Mœurs et coutumes > 1971-
Classes moyennes.
middle class.
Class consciousness
Manners and customs
Middle class
Social classes
Social conditions
Social mobility
Social stratification
Upper class > Social conditions
Working class > Social conditions
Texas > Austin
United States
Since 1971
Case studies
Documentary television programs
Internet videos
Nonfiction television programs
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Documentary television programs.
Nonfiction television programs.
Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
Internet videos.
Television programs > United States.
Documentaires télévisés.
Émissions télévisées autres que de fiction.
Vidéos pour personnes ayant une déficience auditive.
Vidéos sur Internet.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Kanopy)
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. Bud or Bordeaux?: The choices you make reveal your class ; Joe Queenan's balsamic vinegar tour ; The trouble with tofu ; How to marry the rich
  • Part 2. High and low: A tour through the landscape of class ; WASP lessons ; Bourgeois blues ; Tammy's story
  • Part 3. Salt of the Earth: Blue collar life in a white collar world ; Gnomes R Us ; Friends in low places ; Don't get above your raisin'
  • Part 4. Belonging: Understanding the rules of the game ; All you need is cash ; Most likely to succeed
  • Conclusion
  • Credits.