User:BrendelSignature/American professional class

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The American professional class (also refer to as Upper middle class or Managerial class) is a porous

Tenured professors, for exampole, have especially high levels of job security and work-place autonomy. Attorneys, professors, researchers, scientists, physicians and upper-level manangers are examples of upper middle class occupations.[4][6]

Values may be largely related to the qualities of professional class occupations. Gender roles are more loosley defined and values in child rearing are more likely to include openeess to new ideas and adherence to internal, rather than external standards.[1] Professional class persons tend to be more direct and confident in their speech.[4] Parents are more likely to sustain longer and more complex conversations with their children.[7] Politically divided, the professional class is very influencial and the origin of many societal trends. It comprises many occupations that affect the forming of public opinion, including writers, journalists, researchers and local politicians.[2] Its members are more likely to take part in the political process and publically express their opinions.[1] Ideoloically, the upper middle class is divided and rather ideosyncratic. A plurality, 41%, of staunch conservatives and liberals reside in mass affluent households, with 47% of the former and 49% of the ladder being college graduates.[8] In 2006, the majority of those with graduate degrees voted Democrat, while a slight majority of all those with six figure household incomes, a slighly larger group, voted Republican.[9] Between 1996 and 2004, on average, a slight majority, 52%, of college educated professionals favored the Democratic canidate.[10] Overall, those in mass affluent households tend to be more left-leaning on social than on fiscal issues.[11]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Gilbert, D. (1998). The American Class Structure: In An Age Of Gowing Inequality. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
  2. ^ a b Ehrenreich, B. (1989). Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class. New York, New York: Harper-Collins.
  3. ^ Eichar, D. (1989). Occupation and Class Consciousness in America. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press.
  4. ^ a b c Thompson, W. & Hickey, J. (2005). Society in Focus: An Introductory Approach to Sociology. Boston, MA: Allyon & Bacon, Pearson.
  5. ^ "U.S. Census Bureau. (August 2006). Educational Attainment--People 25 Years Old and Over, by Total Money Earnings in 2005, Work Experience in 2005, Age, Race, Hispanic Origin, and Sex". Retrieved 2007-08-15.
  6. ^ a b Beeghley, L. (2004). The Structure of Social Stratitifaction in the United States. Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon, Pearson.
  7. ^ "Hoff-Ginsberg, E. (4 August 1991). Mother-Child Conversation in Different Social Classes and Communicative Settings. Child Development, pp. 782-796". Retrieved 2007-08-16.
  8. ^ "Pew Research Center. (10 May, 2005). Beyond Red vs. Blue". Retrieved 2007-07-12.
  9. ^ "CNN. (2006). Exit Poll". Retrieved 2007-07-11.
  10. ^ "Judis, B. J. (11 July, 2003). The trouble with Howard Dean. Salon.com". Retrieved 2007-07-19.
  11. ^ "Arora, R. & Saad, L. (9 December 2004). Marketing to the Mass Affluent. Gallup Management Journal". Retrieved 2007-08-15.
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