The Social Register: Staying Relevant in the Post-Industrial Age

The Social Register has been since 1888 a defining feature of the American social upper class which has been argued by Baltzell, Domhoff and others as a governing class. From its beginnings in the flowering of the corporate oligarchy in the industrial age, the Social Register has changed relatively...

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Main Author: David Broad
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Language:English
Published: Kennesaw State University 2020-07-01
Series:Journal of Public and Professional Sociology
Online Access:https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/jpps/vol12/iss1/4/
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