Dennis Gilbert (sociologist)

Dennis L. Gilbert (born October 7, 1943, in Bremerton, Washington) is a professor emeritus and former chair of sociology at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Cornell University and has taught at the Universidad Católica in Lima, Peru, Cornell University, and joined Hamilton college in 1976. He has published a variety of sociology books, mainly dealing with socio-economic stratification.

Gilbert wrote a series of books entitled The American Class Structure. His work addresses Latin America, social stratification, polling, and more specifically the American class structure. He developed the Gilbert model, a way of classifying people into social classes.