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Title: Un nouvel age de la societe americaine. Dynamiques et perspectives de la structure sociale aux Etats-Unis (1950-2000)

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2001

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Abstract: For the last fifty years, the American system of social stratification has known a great turn: after the equalisation and social interventionism of the prosperity 1950-1970, a reversion appears. Since 1970, a superclass has been concentrating the outcome of the growth, the middle class is shrinking and the lower strata are pauperised. Through the description of these macrosocial changes, we observe no 'New Age' social structure, but a cohort process of 'restratification' with a sharper hierarchy, simultaneously based on academic titles, income and wealth. These inequalities reveal a clear divergence between the continental European and the American social structures.

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Authors: Chauvel, Louis

Periodical (Full): Revue de l'OFCE

Issue: 1

Volume: 76

Pages: 7-51

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other

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