This article examines the trends reported in empirical investigations of the relationship between social class and intolerance over the last three decades in the light of American history and ideology. Two key studies are cited as landmark works: The Authoritarian Personality and Communism, Conform...
viii, 599 pages 25 cm\nBibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 537-591)\nThe conceptualization of American history / Edward N. Saveth -- Economics / W.W. Rostow -- Geography / Carl O. Sauer -- Sociology / Karl W. Deutsch -- Political science / Kurt Riezler -- Anthropology...
African American women contend with multiple overlapping oppressions yet are less likely to commit suicide than other racial/gender groups. Most studies on Black women and suicide are quantitative and focus on the protective factor...
He then explains the founding fathers as upper class men who just didn’t want the lower class to succeed. I found that part very strange because in my old history class what I learnt about the founding fathers was that they were trying to help Americans as a whole. We learnt that they...
Looking through American history, we see that sports has been used to conserve and show off the social order going on at that point in time. They [sports] was and is used to show off one's masculinity, to show off one's racial superiority. Tools like discipline, cooperation, strategy an...
class. Labor history has been, up until relatively recently, the history of unionized male workers in the industrial and craft sectors. In the U.S., public sector, unions started organizing in the 1960s. At that time the two teachers’ organizations, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT...
This essay situates American health reformers, during the first three-quarters of the twentieth century, in the broader context of reform in American social policy and in the tissue of relationships that connected reformist impulses with the social scien
Social science - History, Disciplines, Separate: Among the disciplines that formed the social sciences, two contrary, for a time equally powerful, tendencies at first dominated them. The first was the drive toward unification, toward a single, master soc
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Middle Class In America “Approximately 13 percent of the American population- that is, nearly, of every eight people in this country- live below the official poverty line,” (Mantsios 179). I define being wealthy as having an immense amount of money, enough to not be stressed about paying...