You could call it class warfare, except the warfare is on the very idea of class. For generations now, various prominent scholars have decided we’d be better off abolishing it. Back in 1939, the ...
It’s often assumed that getting a college education or professional job means that a person from a working-class or low-income background has finally “made it” and will seamlessly join the middle or ...
Understanding the effects of social class on people's attitudes, thoughts, feelings and behaviors could have valuable implications, as it could help to tailor social and behavioral interventions ...
Class diversity has been a blind spot for many colleges. Will that now change? By David Leonhardt The University of Virginia, one of the country’s top public universities, enrolls a strikingly ...
Diversity is a familiar topic in many college psychology classes. Race, gender, sexual orientation, LGBTQ issues, ethnicity, and disability fall under the heading of diversity. Yet one topic, social ...
Our class is still most often defined by our occupation – the government’s NS-SEC classification system – but a more expansive definition of the term is "an economic, social and cultural account of ...
Columbia Business School Professor Paul Ingram has determined the element that has been absent from discussions on diversity for too long: social class. Haley Crawford, a master’s student at Ivey ...
Think you're upper class? Discover what Americans across different generations say it really takes to join this class -- and ...