Louis Chauvel assesses and compares the contemporary problems and fears of decline among the non-professional middle classes in the United States and France.

Louis Chauvel is a professor of sociology at Sciences Po. He specializes in the analysis of social structures, and cohort and generational change.

Emmanuelle Saada is Associate Professor of French and Director of the Center of French and Francophone Studies at Columbia.

Co-sponsored by the Alliance Program and Department of Sociology