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In his recent book Coming Apart: The State of White America, Charles Murray looks at both trends in behavior and differences in behavior between those with high education and occupational prestige and those with low. According to his indicators, the trends in the last half-century show a falling away from traditional values and widening disparities in behavior between the upper and lower classes. After briefly reviewing his main evidence, I turn to more extensive data that, by and large, support his claims about trends. However, they provide less support for his claims about a divergence in the values between those with high and low educational levels
America has become a three-class society. More than twenty-five percent of its children now graduate...
in America. ” This paper draws heavily on Goldin and Katz (1999). Inequality across the twentieth c...
Most of the empirical and theoretical research on the rising inequality trend in American labor mark...
The view that America is fragmenting is popular among both pundits and academics and may well be end...
As income inequality in the United States has reached an all-time high, commentators from across the...
Book review of Charles Murray, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 (2012). New York,...
Review of Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010, by Charles Murray. New York: Crown, 2...
Concerns that prospects for upward mobility are fading are common in popular and scientific discours...
Many sociologists express distain for Charles Murray. They regard him as an unregenerate conservativ...
Has slowing class mobility caused the shift in American culture away from the traditional “American ...
Economic insecurity has grown in the United States since the 1970s. This reflects extensive structur...
Nowhere is there a more intense silence about the realities of class differences than in educational...
This essay reviews the evidence from the mid-1970s up to 2010 of the increasing differentiation of t...
Sometime after mid-century, no one racial or ethnic group will be in the majority in the United Stat...
In 2001 the no child left behind act was signed into law with the promise to close the achievement g...
America has become a three-class society. More than twenty-five percent of its children now graduate...
in America. ” This paper draws heavily on Goldin and Katz (1999). Inequality across the twentieth c...
Most of the empirical and theoretical research on the rising inequality trend in American labor mark...
The view that America is fragmenting is popular among both pundits and academics and may well be end...
As income inequality in the United States has reached an all-time high, commentators from across the...
Book review of Charles Murray, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 (2012). New York,...
Review of Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010, by Charles Murray. New York: Crown, 2...
Concerns that prospects for upward mobility are fading are common in popular and scientific discours...
Many sociologists express distain for Charles Murray. They regard him as an unregenerate conservativ...
Has slowing class mobility caused the shift in American culture away from the traditional “American ...
Economic insecurity has grown in the United States since the 1970s. This reflects extensive structur...
Nowhere is there a more intense silence about the realities of class differences than in educational...
This essay reviews the evidence from the mid-1970s up to 2010 of the increasing differentiation of t...
Sometime after mid-century, no one racial or ethnic group will be in the majority in the United Stat...
In 2001 the no child left behind act was signed into law with the promise to close the achievement g...
America has become a three-class society. More than twenty-five percent of its children now graduate...
in America. ” This paper draws heavily on Goldin and Katz (1999). Inequality across the twentieth c...
Most of the empirical and theoretical research on the rising inequality trend in American labor mark...
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