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Subject: Stratification and Diversification

Title : American Exceptionalism

I - American Exceptionalism

It is generally accepted that the Americans are not class conscious, and that American workers are not motivated by the desire for class struggle. American seems to be the exception – for example, in Europe worker’s unions have actively sought to replace private ownership of the means of production by a system of collective ownership.

This is called the thesis of American Exceptionalism.

Europe during the C19th provoked a working-class resistance that became of “spectre” threatening revolution. America, by contrast, was by the beginning of C20th remarkable for the weakness of the working-class.

As early as 1906 the German sociologist Werner Sombart asked the question, “Why is there no socialism in the United States?” Various answers have been proposed.
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