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Article: Workers find dignity in moral standards.
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- United Press International
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- December 3, 2001
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WASHINGTON, Dec 03, 2001
Working-class men find their dignity and self-worth in leading moral, disciplined lives, which function as an alternative to economic measures of success, a Princeton sociologist said Monday.
Michele Lamont told a forum at the New America Foundation that at a time when the upper-middle class is becoming more isolated socially and geographically from other groups, it has become increasingly difficult for the college-educated to understand how distinctive -- and ethnocentric -- their particular understandings of the world are.
Lamont sees the living standards of the self-defined "lower-middle class" as being uninterrupted, ...