Welcome to the companion website!

Welcome to the companion website for The American Class Structure in an Age of Growing Inequality, Ninth Edition, by Dennis Gilbert. The resources on the site have been specifically designed to support your study.

On this website you will find:

  • Web Exercises

Instructors can log in to access:

  • Test Bank 
  • PowerPoint Slides
  • Web Exercises
  • Film and Video Resources
  • Tables and Figures 

About the book:

Like its predecessors, the Ninth Edition of Dennis Gilbert's popular text focuses on the socioeconomic core of the American class system. Drawing on classic and contemporary studies, Gilbert describes our class structure and shows how class affects our everyday lives, from the way we raise our children to the way we vote. The major theme running through the book is the increasing inequality in American society. Gilbert describes the shift in the mid-1970s from an "Age of Shared Prosperity" to an "Age of Growing Inequality." Using the most recent wage, income, and wealth statistics, and accounts of the shifting balance of class power in national politics, the author traces the widening disparities between the privileged classes and average Americans. He repeatedly returns to the question, "Why is this happening?" A variety of economic, political, and social factors are examined, and the competing explanations of influential writers are critically assessed, concluding with the author's synthesis of the book's lessons about the power of class and the forces behind growing inequality.

Acknowledgments

We gratefully acknowledge Dennis Gilbert for writing an excellent text and for his involvement in reviewing and editing the assets on this site. Special thanks is also due to Laura Colmenero-Chilberg at Black Hills State University for updating and creating the ancillaries on this site.

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