Status-Oriented Commentaries on Class

Baltzell, E. Digby. The Protestant Establishment: Aristocracy and Caste in America. New York: Vintage Books, 1964. 
Bourdieu, Pierre. Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984. 

Collins, Randall. The Credential Society: An Historical Sociology of Education and Stratification. New York: Academic Press, 1979. 
Crateau, David. Politics and the Class Divide: Working People and the Middle-Class.  Temple University Press, 1995. 

Fussell, Paul. Class. New York: Ballantine Books, 1983. 

Haber, Samuel. The Quest for Authority and Honor in the American Professions. 1750-1900. Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press, 1991.