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TURNERIAN MODELS


BEARDIAN AND MARXIST MODELS


LABOR STUDIES


ETHNORELIGIOUS MODELS AND VOTING STUDIES


RACE, CLASS AND GENDER MODELS


REFERENCES

  • Joyce Appleby, ''Capitalism and a New Social Order: The Republican Version of the 1790's'' (1984)

  • Beard, Charles and Mary. ''The Rise of American Civilization'' (1927)

  • Bledstein, Burt. ''The Culture of Professionalism: the Middle Class and the Development of Higher Education in America'' (1976)

  • Lizabeth Cohen''Consumer's Republic'', Knopf, 2003, ISBN 0375407502. Historical analysis of the working out of class in the United States.

  • Stephanie Coontz, ''The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap'' (1993)

  • Seymour Martin Lipset, ''American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword'' (1997)

  • Michael McGerr, ''A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920'' (2003)

  • Sellers, Charles. ''The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846'' (1991.)

  • Local and Ethnic Studies

  • Lizabeth Cohen, ''Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939'' (1994)

  • David M Emmons, ''The Butte Irish: Class and Ethnicity in an American Mining Town, 1875-1925'' (1990)

  • Thomas A Guglielmo, ''White on Arrival: Italians, Race, Color, and Power in Chicago, 1890-1945'' (2003)

  • Henry M McKiven, ''Iron and Steel: Class, Race, and Community in Birmingham, Alabama, 1875-1920'' (1995)

  • Christine Stansell, ''City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860'' (1987)

  • William Toll, ''The Making of an Ethnic Middle Class'' (1982), Jews in Portland Oregon

  • David Williams. ''Rich Man's War: Class, Caste, and Confederate Defeat in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley'' (1999)



Labor Studies



Race-Class-Gender



Social science perspectives

  • Louise Archer et al. ''Higher Education and Social Class: Issues of Exclusion and Inclusion'' RoutledgeFalmer. 2003

  • Peter Blau and Otis D. Duncan, ''The American Occupational Structure'' (1967) classic study of structure and mobility

  • Martin J. Burke, ''The Conundrum of Class: Public Discourse on the Social Order in America'' (1995), intellectual history

  • Harold J. Bershady, ed. ''Social Class and Democratic Leadership: Essays in Honor of E. Digby Baltzell'' (1989)

  • John Patrick Diggins, ''Thorstein Veblen: Theorist of the Leisure Class'' (1999)

  • Douglas M. Eichar; ''Occupation and Class Consciousness in America'' Greenwood Press, 1989

  • Rick Fantasia, Rhonda F. Levine, Scott G. McNall, eds. ''Bringing Class Back in Contemporary and Historical Perspectives'' Westview Press. 1991

  • David L. Featherman and Robert M. Hauser, ''Opportunity and Change'' (1978).

  • Paul Fussell ''Class (a painfully accurate guide through the American status system)'', 1983. ISBN 0-345-31816-1

  • David B Grusky. ed. ''Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective'' (2001) scholarly articles

  • Michael D. Grimes, ''Class in Twentieth-Century American Sociology: An Analysis of Theories and Measurement Strategies'' (1991)

  • Lawrence E. Hazelrigg and Joseph Lopreato; ''Class, Conflict, and Mobility: Theories and Studies of Class Structure'' 1972.

  • Susan A. Ostrander; ''Women of the Upper Class'' Temple University Press, 1984

  • Jeff Manza and Clem Brooks; ''Social Cleavages and Political Change: Voter Alignments and U.S. Party Coalitions'' Oxford University Press, 1999

  • Jeff Manza; "Political Sociological Models of the U.S. New Deal" ''Annual Review of Sociology'', 2000 pp 297+

  • Michael Marmot. ''The Status Syndrome: How Social Standing Affects Our Health and Longevity'' 2004

  • Geoff Payne. ''The Social Mobility of Women: Beyond Male Mobility Models'' (1990)

  • Leonard Reissman, ''Class in American Society'' (1960) , textbook

  • Vanneman, Reeve, and Lynn Cannon. ''The American Perception of Class'' (1984)

  • Daniel J. Walkowitz; ''Working with Class: Social Workers and the Politics of Middle-Class Identity'' University of North Carolina Press, 1999

  • W. Lloyd Warner, ''Social Class in America: A Manual of Procedure for the Measurement of Social Status'' (1949)

  • Erik Olin Wright ed. ''Approaches to Class Analysis'' (2005)scholarly articles

  • Clarence E Wunderlin, ''Visions of a New Industrial Order: Social Science and Labor Theory in America 's Progressive Era'' (1992)



Primary sources

  • Robert S. McElvaine. ed; ''Down & Out in the Great Depression: Letters from the "Forgotten Man" (1983 )