Commerce
Small business owners: the petite bourgeois (EB)
False (?) autonomy
Industrialization (EB)

Bureaucratization
 The rise of the nation state
 The modern military
 Church
 Corporatism

Professionalization
 Status scrambling
 Credentialism
 Bureaucratization of the professionals
 “Independent” professionals
Urbanization and suburbanization

 U.S. as a middle class society
40-45% of the population
Majority image

  Income,  1,  2
Salaried: the Jackpot economy and wage inequality
Profit
Perks

  Subjective orientations
Value system
Morality
Education
Work
Progressivity: gender issues and abortion

Lifestyles
Cultural and religious consistencies vs. variations
Consumerism
Recreational/leisure pursuits
Sexual behavior

Communication styles
Language use

  The middle strata

          The pink collar

Deskillization: computerization and office technology
Glass ceiling

Middle managers
Power vs. status panic (groundless anxiety?)
Displacement, dislocation and downsizing

The higher executives
Middle class origins and upper class power