Dennis L. Gilbert (born October 7, 1943, in
Bremerton, Washington
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) is a professor emeritus and former chair of
sociology
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at
Hamilton College in
Clinton,
New York. He holds a
Doctor of Philosophy
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degree from
Cornell University
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and has taught at the Universidad Católica in
Lima
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,
Peru
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, Cornell University, and joined Hamilton college in 1976. He has published a variety of sociology books, mainly dealing with socio-economic stratification.
Gilbert wrote a series of books entitled ''The American Class Structure''. His work addresses
Latin America
Latin America is the cultural region of the Americas where Romance languages are predominantly spoken, primarily Spanish language, Spanish and Portuguese language, Portuguese. Latin America is defined according to cultural identity, not geogr ...
,
social stratification
Social stratification refers to a society's categorization of its people into groups based on socioeconomic factors like wealth, income, race, education, ethnicity, gender, occupation, social status, or derived power (social and political ...
,
poll
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Forms of voting and counting
* Poll, a formal election
** Election verification exit poll, a survey taken to verify election counts
** Polling, voting to make decisions or determine opinions
** Polling pla ...
ing, and more specifically the
American class structure.
He developed the
Gilbert model, a way of classifying people into
social classes
A social class or social stratum is a grouping of people into a set of hierarchical social categories, the most common being the working class and the capitalist class. Membership of a social class can for example be dependent on education, ...
.
List of publications
Since 1981, Dennis Gilbert has published the following books according to
Amazon.com:
* ''Mexico's Middle Class in the Neoliberal Era'', 2007,
* ''The American Class Structure in an Age of Growing Inequality'': multiple editions including 2018 (10th), , 2010 (8th), , 2002 (6th), , and 1998 (5th).
* ''The American Class Structure: A New Synthesis'', 1992
* ''Sandinistas: The Party and the Revolution'', 1990,
See also
*
Gilbert model
References
1943 births
American social sciences writers
American sociologists
Cornell University alumni
Living people
Hamilton College (New York) faculty
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