Eighth, poverty helps to guarantee the status of those who are not poor. In every hierarchical
society, someone has to be at the bottom; but in American society, in which social mobility is an
important goal for many and people need to know where they stand, the poor function as a reliable
and relatively permanent measuring rod for status comparisons. This is particularly true for theworking class, whose politics is influenced by the need to maintain status distinctions between
themselves and the poor, much as the aristocracy must find ways of distinguishing itself from the
nouveaux riches.
Eighth, poverty helps to guarantee the status of those who are not poor. In every hierarchicalsociety, someone has to be at the bottom; but in American society, in which social mobility is animportant goal for many and people need to know where they stand, the poor function as a reliableand relatively permanent measuring rod for status comparisons. This is particularly true for theworking class, whose politics is influenced by the need to maintain status distinctions betweenthemselves and the poor, much as the aristocracy must find ways of distinguishing itself from thenouveaux riches.
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