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title: "1 Class Life Quotes By Susan T. Fiske"
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> [“To attain, and to keep, a professional-managerial job requires class-specific human capital. Developing and displaying that capital is a central preoccupation of upper-middle class life.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-t-fiske/to-attain-and-to-keep-a-professional-managerial-job-requires-class/)

Susan T. Fiske

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## More by Susan T. Fiske

> [“Social class positioning influences all aspects of everyday interaction – how to talk, if to talk and when, whom to trust, whether or not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-t-fiske/social-class-positioning-influences-all-aspects-of-everyday/)

Susan T. Fiske

> [“The middle-class standard of the independent self has increasingly become the default American standard for how to think, feel and act in the world…this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-t-fiske/the-middle-class-standard-of-the-independent-self-has-increasingly/)

Susan T. Fiske

> [“To attain, and to keep, a professional-managerial job requires class-specific human capital. Developing and displaying that capital is a central preoccupation of upper-middle class…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-t-fiske/to-attain-and-to-keep-a-professional-managerial-job-requires-class/)

Susan T. Fiske

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