The New Class Society: Goodbye American Dream?, Fourth Edition

The New Class Society introduces students to the sociology of class structure and inequalities as it asks whether or not the American dream has faded. The fourth edition of this powerful book demonstrates how and why class inequalities in the United States have been widened, hardened, and become more entrenched than ever.

The fourth edition has been extensively revised and reorganized throughout, including a new introduction that offers an overview of key themes and shorter chapters that cover a wider range of topics. New material for the fourth edition includes a discussion of "The Great Recession" and its ongoing impact, the demise of the middle class, rising costs of college and increasing student debt, the role of electronic media in shaping people's perceptions of class, and more.

• Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class -- And What We Can Do About It
• Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill)
• Richistan: A Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich
• Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War
• Who Rules America? Power, Politics, and Social Change
• Aftershock(Inequality for All--Movie Tie-in Edition): The Next Economy and America's Future
• The Power of Good Deeds: Privileged Women and the Social Reproduction of the Upper Class
• $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
• Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life, 2nd Edition with an Update a Decade Later
• Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America