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In short, our evidence suggests—though it does not strictly prove—that the cross-class contacts occur largely within congregational activities.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

Since most Americans are uncomfortable with the language of class, we and some other researchers use an indirect way of measuring cross-class ties.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

In the case of socioeconomic segregation, evangelical churches seem to have provided one niche for cross-class friendship, but by and large religious America has offered little support for public action to redress growing class inequities, unlike the stance of many devout Americans in earlier eras.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

The available evidence does not allow us to say whether or not there are other niches in contemporary America in which interclass ties are fostered, but the three independent national surveys that we have examined confirm that evangelical congregations are one such niche.47 On the other hand, cross-class contact does not seem to translate into more support for redistributive public policies nor into more generous philanthropic behavior.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

We have confirmed our essential generalizations about cross-class bridging and religiosity in our 2006 Faith Matters survey, the 2000 Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey, and the Panel Study of American Religion and Ethnicity (PS-ARE), 1st Wave (2006), the only three national surveys of which we are aware that measure downward bridging.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

I'm just weighing in with a little cross-class/beer industry solidarity and concerned about the hit on bars.

Beer and Taxes « PubliCola 2010

These cross-class things never work in gangsterism.

Watch Layer Cake: live! Michael Hann 2010

Standing with one foot in the male-dominated labor movement and one foot in the cross-class world of women reformers, she touched a great many people.

Pauline Newman. 2009

During Muslim rule, this appears to have been a cross-class phenomenon, and many examples appear in eleventh - and twelfth-century rabbinic responsa; needless to say, the wealthy would naturally be more apt to engage in the practice of polygyny, which they could afford.

Spain. 2009

On tactical questions the Second Socialist International had already spoken the final word in the late nineteenth century: Socialist women were to remain loyal to the party and resist the temptation to make cross-class alliances with other women.

Socialism in the United States. 2009