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- University of North Carolina Press
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- Copyright © Berea College
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- 1940-5081
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Abstract
By Tim Long Anthropology Department of Kalamazoo College in 1976. The author made the study as a special project while in residence in the school at Buckhorn, Kentucky. Since that time he has returned to Buckhorn as a special worker. In writing and reading about Appalachian highlanders, many people fall into a trap. They consider these highlanders using the concepts of the average American, classifying many highlanders as lower class, for their incomes are low, compared to "Social Stratification in Appalachia" is a section taken from Workin', Livin', Schoolin': A Study of Appalachian Life, which Tim Longpresented to the Sociology- the average. They also talk of the middle and upper classes in Appalachia, thus bringing to the Appalachian culture, American standards. It just does not fit to classify families in Eastern Kentucky as upper, middle, lower on a socio-economic scale. This area has a culture unique from much of Americas, being isolated until 1900, with some areas remaining remote until 1950. When we classify families we do it on an economic level. American society, in they strive to reach a certain pinnacle and when reached there's always that next general, is a money society. For some money has
Journal
Appalachian Review – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Jan 8, 1977