Dennis Gilbert is professor

Professor

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 and chair of sociology

Sociology

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 at Hamilton College in Clinton

Clinton, Oneida County, New York

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, New York

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. He holds a Ph.D.

Doctor of Philosophy

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 from Cornell University

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 and has taught at the Universidad Catlica in Lima, Peru, Cornell University and joined Hamilton college in 1976. He has published a variety of sociology books, mainly dealing with socio-economic stratification. He 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 Latin America

Latin America

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, social stratification

Social stratification

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, poll

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ing and more specifically the American class structure.

List of publications

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

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:

• Mexico's Middle Class in the Neoliberal Era, 2007
• The American Class Structure in an Age of Growing Inequality, 2002
• The American Class Structure in an Age of Growing Inequality, 1998
• The American Class Structure: A New Synthesis, 1992
• Sandinistas: The Party and the Revolution, 1990
• The American Class Structure: A New Synthesis,

See also

• Sociology
  Sociology
  Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...
  
  
• Social class in the United States
• Gilbert Model
  Gilbert Model
  The Gilbert Model was developed by Dennis Gilbert, professor of sociology at Hamilton College, as a means of a more effective way of classifying people in a given society into social classes.-Influences on the Gilbert Model:...