Zweig's Definition Of Middle Class In American Culture

In traditional media and culture, class is a relationship based off of income where the majority of people fall in a middle zone with a small number falling below and an even smaller number resting above. The majority has been termed the middle class, and in recent years has become the target of advertising, politics, and entertainment. In American culture, the middle class represents the average, with the extremes of poverty and elitist flanking either end. When class is defined by income, the middle class would technically encapsulate a majority of people. However, the identities of the people in this bracket are not cohesive and are impossible to define as a whole. American culture has tried by representing middle class as cozy existence and insisting that this

Zweig’s definition consists of three classes: the working class, the middle class, and the capitalist class. He believes that many of the people described by popular culture as middle class more closely identify with his definition of working class. Regardless of income or occupation, the working class are people who have very little independence in regards to their work and are not the supervisors of others. This is in direct contrast to the capitalist class which consists of people who control and organize production.
The dynamic between the working class and the capitalist class is hierarchical, with the capitalist class exercising immense power and influence in relation to the working class. These two classes by themselves closely resemble Marx’s analysis of the class struggle between the bourgeois and the proletariat. The capitalists use their power over the means of production to exploit the working class to drive production and profit-making. This is evident by the rapid increase in production over the last 50 years along with a decline in wages for the working