SOC 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Paul Fussell, Part Of Speech
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When i introduce students to the concept of stratification, they often react as if it"s a topic that is relevant only to other societies. More specifically, i have observed in my students a tendency to believe that in the. United states, there are no such things as social classes, let alone social class differences. My students are not unusual in this respect. Many researchers have reported that people in the united states are reluctant to admit the existence of class. This was something that paul fussell discovered early on when he was writing his. The subject of class, he concluded, is always touchy : You can outrage people today simply by mentioning social class, very much the way, sipping tea among the aspidistras [a kind of lily] a century ago, you could silence a party by adverting too openly to sex.
