Clash of the middle classes.

From: Harper's Magazine | Date: October 1, 1993| Author: Wolfe, Alan | Copyright information

From "Middle-Class Moralities," by Alan Wolfe, in the Summer issue of The Wilson Quarterly, a special issue on class. Wolfe is University Professor and chairman of the sociology department at Boston University and is the author, most recently, of The Human Difference: Animals, Computers, and the Necessity of Social Science. His essay "The Politics of Privacy, Right and Left" appeared in the May issue of Harper's Magazine.

As the 1992 election demonstrated, middle-clas...

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