The Republican Party has effectively exploited working class fears about family disintegration to peddle the message that these changes reflect elite disdain for traditional values.
Public disorder, family disintegration, cultural fragmentation and civic and religious disaffection, on the other hand, breed downward mobility and financial strain — which in turn breeds further social dislocation, in a vicious cycle that threatens to transform a working class into an underclass".
The vast disparities between rich and poor, the spectacular concentration of wealth amassed by the richest Americans in the previous two generations, and the inability of government policies to mitigate the crisis brought the nation to the edge of class warfare and social disintegration.
What wider social process does it represent (capitalism, social disintegration, modernization, class conflict, etc).? Whose interests does it favour?
By Arthur Phillips Márai found his subject in the disintegration of his class and country.
One of the productions, Cathy Come Home (1966), explored the disintegration of a working-class family and examined the intertwined issues of unemployment and homelessness.
Their emphasis is on the disintegration of working-class cohesion, which they blame on "crime, contraception, and growing economic inequality".
Their respectable, middle-class marriage and its gradual disintegration, against a background of Olga's declining health and increasing anxiety at her husband's infidelity, dominate Mr Richardson's story.
Although it can stand alone as the stark account of the murder of an eccentric old woman who sells bootleg CD's at an open-air flea market, this crime novel is the final chapter in a class-conscious trilogy about the disintegration of a socially dysfunctional neighborhood in gritty Glasgow.
As Andrew J. Cherlin points out in "Labor's Love Lost," his study of the disintegration of the working-class white family, the share of blue-collar jobs in the U.S. economy declined from 28percentt in 1970 to 17 percent in 2010.
