January 25, 2002
Why Academics Don't Study the Lower Middle Class
We need new ways of talking about class. The common belief that everyone in America is middle class makes no sense in a country that boasts some of the largest income disparities in the Western world. The Marxist model of class struggle between bourgeoisie and proletariat, still popular among some academics, simply fails to come to grips with how people experience and make sense of class.
In the United States, class identities and affiliations cannot be divided up so neatly. People of
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