Dennis L. Gilbert (born October 7, 1943 in

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) is a professor emeritus and former chair of

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in Clinton, New York. He holds a

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degree from

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and has taught at the Universidad Católica in

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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 may be best known for his series of books entitled ''The American Class Structure''. The class models featured in the series are used by other sociologists such as James Henslin, Brian K. Williams and Carl M. Wahlstrom. His main areas of expertise are

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, social stratification,

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ing, and more specifically the American class structure. He developed the

Gilbert model The Gilbert model was developed by Dennis Gilbert as a means of a more effective way of classifying people in a given society into social classes. Influences Karl Marx believed that social class is determined by ownership (or non-ownership) of ...

, a popular way of classifying people into

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List of publications

Since 1981, Dennis Gilbert has published the following books according to

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: * ''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,

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1943 births American social sciences writers American sociologists Cornell University alumni Living people {{sociologist-stub

List of publications

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