collect (third-person singular simple present collects, present participle collecting, simple past and past participle collected) ( 1 transitive) To gather together; amass. quotations â¼ 2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, âGeothermal Energyâ, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4: Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it.
pluralist theory, elite and class theory contends that society is divided along class lines and that an upper-class elite rules. Wealth is seen as the basis of power, and a few powerful Americans are the policymakers. Some scholars believe elitism is on the rise in the United States, especially due to the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George W.
In this chapter, I will outline the cultural and social forces at work in. maintaining a class society, and the social effects of class distinctions. Classism. We are all of and in a social class. We are of the class that our parents occupy, born into it just as we were born into a nation and thrown into its culture. We. donât deserve our class (or national) ascribed status, regardless of what it is (in. contrast to cultures that believe in reincarnation).