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Class Consciousness as Conduct and Meaning: the Case of Upper Class Women

class ideology is accurate. They conclude that Americans are not particularly &dquo;class conscious&dquo; and do not consistently behave or define their lives in class-related ways (e.g. Mayer and Buckley, 1970; Rothman, 1978; Hurst, 1979). This ideology and its scientific supports contribute to a lack of interest among policymakers and the general populace in the issue of class inequality. Since classes are not perceived as important or real, strategies to bring about an equalitarian class structure and eliminate class privilege are seen as unnecessary and receive little attention among those who would benefit most from these changes. My study of women of the upper class led me to conclude that current academic theorizing about class consciousness is inadequate and accounts in part for the failure of social scientists to explore the reality of class. The aim of this paper, then, is to critique existing conceptualizations of class consciousness, and to consider an alterna-