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The American Family : Across the Class Divide
The American Family Across the Class Divide Author:Yasushi Watanabe In this empirical case study, Yasushi Watanabe contrasts two social groups of the Northeastern United States. He describes the first group as upper/upper-middle class, Anglo Saxon, Protestant, mostly Unitarian or Episcopalian - the successful yuppie group often identified as archetypal middle-class America; and the second as lower/lower-middle c... more »lass, Irish Catholic, often referred to as the Boston Irish. Both groups are identified at opposing ends of the social spectrum in terms of religious, ethnic, and class backgrounds and in terms of cultural tastes and lifestyle. As a Japanese anthropologist Watanabe's study is informed by both American and Japanese culture.« less