Class Structure Exercise

Exercise Based on
Model of the American Class Structure: Classes by Typical Situations
from Dennis Gilbert and Joseph A. Kahl
The American Class Structure: a new synthesis, 4th Edition
Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1993.

In the spaces provided in the chart below use the items provided in the cue boxes.
Estimate the percentage of households in each class.

RETURN

edited 3/31/01

Cues: Education	Cues: Occupation of Family Head
1. some high school	1. welfare recipient	8. clerical workers	15. med. business owner
2. prestige university	2. heir	9. low-paid craftspeople	16. low-paid operative
3. high school	3. service worker	10. craftspeople	17. retail salesworkers
4. college	4. lower manager	11. semi-professional	18. upper manager
5. some college	5. laborer	12. unemployed	19. executive
6. postgraduate study	6. non-retail sales	13. foremen	20. investor
7. apprenticeship	7. professional	14. part-time worker	21. operatives

Class	Capitalist	Upper Middle	Middle	Working	Working Poor	Underclass
% of House-holds	guess: actual:	guess: actual:	guess: actual:	guess: actual:	guess: actual:	guess: actual:
Edu-cation

Family-Head Occupa-tion
Family Income, 1990	Over $750M, mostly from assets.	$70M up	about $40M	about $25M	below $20M	below $13M