Professor Gerson and other sociologists saw something I had seen as well among my middle class acquaintances: a discomfort with center-based day care and even the term "day care," preferring terms like "educational enrichment" and, yes, preschool.
And yet, among those of your middle-class acquaintance, probably fewer than half have any clue whatsoever where, say, their next three mortgage payments will come from.
First, they convened members from a wide range of occupations, providing a site for cross-class acquaintance and exchange.
This means that a working-class person can be expected to have more working-class acquaintances than a person from the middle class, allowing the latter better access to resources and information through her network.
There is help though, for identifying that class of acquaintances you periodically see at kids' sports events, the dog park or the coffee shop, but not often enough to recall their names.
The Movement that is always moving and morphing in our digital world is "Black Lives Matter," a movement that a few of my middle-class white acquaintances continue to misunderstand and malign.
Not much of a tent-pegger, I imagine.In class, this new acquaintance of mine, let us call him Shah, sat next to Omar Sheikh.
Here we limit our investigation to the simple scheme outlined above, because a repetition procedure is appropriate to model a school environment, where activities follow a rather repetitive daily and weekly rhythm, and each child is expected to interact every day with approximately the same set of individuals, namely the members of her/his class and her/his acquaintances in other classes.
Most weight rooms will have no trouble pairing you up with a partner; in group classes and team sports, you're likely to make acquaintances in class with whom you can partner for extra exercise.
Dave Barry, a 37-year-old director of capital advisory at a financial firm, calls the prices of the boutique classes several female acquaintances have dragged him to "laughable". Yet he ponies up over $3,000 annually for a membership to the New York Athletic Club, where he and a group of friends regularly meet to play squash.
