Breadcrumb Home Leicht says middle class more of a cultural category versus economic Monday, October 8, 2012 Iowa City Press-Citizen http://lifeinc.today.com/_news/2012/10/08/14247643-middle-class-whatever-it-is-… Kevin Leicht, director of the Iowa Social Science Research Center at the University of Iowa, says that in the United States, the term middle class is more of a cultural category than an economic one.