SOCIOLOGY

America and the myth of the middle class

America and the myth of the middle class

Introduction

After the American declaration of independence, Hamilton viewed America as an industrialized and mercantilism supremacy and Thomas Jefferson viewed it as agricultural giant. American citizens had all grants for the happiness they required. After 300 years, the industry got chained, agriculture has strained, and people have to fight for their constitutional rights. Economic depressions have crushed their dreams. 100 years ago, an influential study of the function of the intermediate class in economic development got freed on the Victorian community. It explained how monopolistic associations had been "pushed on one side by the manufacturing middle class" which "developed [and] increased its capital" as it reformed economies and polities.

Scientifically, the middle classes are the sector of the population working manually or intellectually, but who owns the means of work, unlike the working class. By definition, the middle class is very heterogeneous. As middle class is the small farmers who barely survive on their piece of land, as a homeowner medium with 15 or 20 hectares, or the small neighborhood grocer and lawyer who runs a prestigious law firm.

Thesis Statement

The "middle class" - is crucial

Development of middle class situation

The fact of middle class (the category of ideology) gets supported by several factors. First, despite its name, it is not just a social group that occupies a middle position in the professional status or property hierarchy. As a rule, in America the "middle class" means upper cut massive populations that do well against the majority of the population, but it is clearly not up to a narrow layer of the elite (Dwek, 2008).

Second, the middle class is not a purely positional characteristic. It is a set of seats in the existing structure of society and has a great degree dynamic response. Third, the category middle class is very much loaded in value terms. This class has assigned almost all of the positive features in terms of its economic, political and social attitudes. The middle class, thus, represents an idealized image of the future members of society, as they would like to see a certain value positions.

Finally, in terms of describing the level and style of life middle class, this gets evidently borrowed from the image. Belonging to the middle class - so, not just to live well by American standards, it means to live as live in something that has ...