Money, Morals, and Manners · the Culture of the French and the American Upper-Middle Class by Lamont, Mich��le -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Copyright Page Title Page Dedication Contents Tables and Maps Acknowledgments Note to the Reader Prologue: Sketching the Landscape: Some Illustrative Vignettes

Cultural Sophistication as a sine qua non Moral Tales This-Worldly Worlds

Chapter One: The Questions and the Stage

Issues and Approaches Boundaries at Work Procedures Interviewing Experience

Chapter Two: The Importance of Being Honest Keys to Moral Boundaries

“Phonies,” Social Climbers, Salauds, and Other Polluting Categories Moral Character in the Workplace

The Religious Scene Volunteerism Conclusion

Chapter Three: The World of Success, Money, And Power: Keys to Socioeconomic Boundaries

A World of Inequality The Iron Law of Money Power, Fame, and Glory: The French Definitions of Success Variations on the Inner Circle Class, Race, Gender, and Ethnicity Antisocioeconomic Boundaries Conclusion

Chapter Four: Most of My Friends are Refined: Keys to Cultural Boundaries

Against the Philistines Cultural Exclusion, Brilliance, Expertise, and Other Forms of Intelligence Self-Actualization The Cultured World of Exclusion: The Case of “Bad Taste” Intellectuals and Intellectual Subcultures Exploring Cultural Laxity: The American Case

Conclusion

Chapter Five: Explaining National Differences

National Patterns in Boundary Work Explaining Differences

Historical National Repertoires The Influence of Sectors of Cultural Production and Diffusion Remote Environmental Conditions Proximate Environmental Factors

Conclusion

Chapter Six: The Nature of Internal Class Boundaries

Social and Cultural Specialists and For-Profit Workers

Profit Making and Boundary Work Patterns of Exclusion across Occupational Groups National Patterns and the Dynamics of Occupational Groups

Trajectories and Seniority in the Upper-Middle Class

Conclusion

Chapter Seven: Implications, Contributions, and Unanswered Questions

Class Cultures and the Reproduction of Inequality Differentiation, Hierarchy, and the Politics of Meaning Theoretical Reassessments

Synthesis and Agenda

Appendix I: Surveying the French and American Upper-Middle Classes

Introduction Comparing Social Positions Comparing Social Groups

Appendix II: The Research Sites

Site Selection The Four Sites

Appendix III: Research Procedures

Sampling Procedures Interviewing Procedures Data Analysis

Appendix IV: Ranking of Respondents on the Cultural, Moral, and Socioeconomic Dimensions Notes Bibliography Index