Oh Oh, UMC. Anyone have Barbara Ehrenreich's e-mail addy? The PMC could use some criticism from Carrol.
http://www.sac.emich.edu/kern/nyrb.htm
Following Bourdieu (1984), DiMaggio (1982, 1987, 1991) and Lamont (1992), the symbolic boundaries used by members of the upper middle class are examined through a content analysis of personal advertisements appearing in the first four months of 1992 in the New York Review of Books. The analysis finds support for Lamont’s conclusions regarding the importance of economic and cultural resources in creating social boundaries among members of this class but does not find moral resources to be used by advertisers either in describing themselves or the characteristics they desire in a respondent as often as would be predicted by that study. Also, positive personality and physical resources and are found to be important dimensions in the creation of symbolic boundaries by members of this social strata. <snip> Michael Pugliese