Dennis Gilbert (sociologist)

For the baseball agent and executive, see Dennis Gilbert (baseball).

Dennis L. Gilbert (born October 7, 1943 in Bremerton, Washington) is a professor and chair of sociology at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. He holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University 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, social stratification, polling and more specifically the American class structure.

List of publications

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

• Mexico's Middle Class in the Neoliberal Era, 2007, ISBN 0816525900
• The American Class Structure in an Age of Growing Inequality, 2010 (8th), ISBN 141297965X
• The American Class Structure in an Age of Growing Inequality, 2002 (6th), ISBN 0534541100
• The American Class Structure in an Age of Growing Inequality, 1998 (5th)
• The American Class Structure: A New Synthesis, 1992
• Sandinistas: The Party and the Revolution, 1990, ISBN 1557860068

See also

• Sociology
• Social class in the United States
• Gilbert model