CLASSLESS' SOCIETY? SJS PROF CLAIMS 'NO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400050007-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 10, 1998
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: June 19, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

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and` your neighbors in the extent painted for us by the!it, and many' r ~ the ladder -the upper
Peninsula- area is interest- ~ "experts." ~`" Treaders are likely to be in-1 class.)
That eo ley'~ia the upper-; terviewed this rummer o~ ?.~.
!,ing indeed. ' ,p p fall."
For instance,. he's found: ' rxliddle class axe rlow watch-
' That despite the old saw ~`--"~"'" '?'"" ""'~ ~ ~ Dr. Hodges is a big, youth
' ,~ __ 'n far fewer television. ~ful -looping ex -newspaper
!about class society being' = g man who became interested;
un-American, P e ni n s u 1 a programs than during the ; in studying people 'while
people tend to fall into fi past several .year's.. Thee re .Working for Associated '-
i general classes, ranging switching' to reading and
from the upper (socfal reg- 1-fi listening instead. And ~Pr^ss and the Los Angeles
{isterites) to the lower- low--that. TV viewing has in- Tires in Europe. Thexe he'
in~erviewed such. persons
er (unskilled, marginal or reas~d at the bottom , as S1 inston Churchill, Pablo ;
unemployed laborers). ungs.
That .attainment -of up- ~~'"~`~~~_ t' Cl}arles;
That income differ- ~-~---
iper -middle class statue ~ do Gaulle ,.~ other notes-
' ences are' no`longervalid rapidly is requiring apost- , ~ bles, ydhe~t ng~ his interest.
in determining ~'hese graduate college degree in "finding out what makes'
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classes. 'The skilled `"and '~ dmiuistrationor Abus~e~r' pcople tick," ,
semi-skilled laborers oft- ~' ). He's. found -that, gener?.
en' make more than the - - - ?~ ';.Tally, Peninsularis '`tick" in-;
lower-ranking white. col ~~ ~., ielcr's degree wfll no to these classes ... ?.
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; East Coast to t~he~contrary, . ,ut n e i g`h 1~-c r s in hs '
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mytin of ~i1C' l;Vlllulul+++~? ~ in tl~e three-year c:Mse estate, advertising
kaffae_klaa~china suburban _t _..._ ............ .....>,.,. ?~ ... , ,
rOfJUI,-ctuilaulc ulza,llna n ~Illet ~~ w~~eS Of in~er-
~differ not. one wh#~ fiom~ Upper-middle - `;
I v~ - h as ;many ques- per cent, 17 to 18 S~ i'
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tests, Rors~~ich (ink blot) n~` smen doctors
pd~sts anci open-ended. ques- a~~ .ministers. ' ~~ ~~ ~
t`'.7s. `Ye~ve interviewed at- . `
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pro a y a ~ ;.ski 1 I e d. an semi-s
word, a "class:' Your place, depending on your edu .workers.
cation (to a degree), your 'tastes; every how much -you Lower?Iower `=~i$ to 20 per
watch television, lies in one of give general categories,
according to a San Jose State College sociolog'ast '`cent, i~.o 7 yews, unskilled
Merc?~,ry reporter Leigh Weimers interviewed Dr `~mar'AiT~~ cg unernpldyed~
Harold M. Hodges and came up with six articles ~~~'r ~, ~ Ss~o~indaries,are not!
about you. `harc~'~and fa.siv," Dr. I3odgesl
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