The decennial census of 1930, the principal results of which we now know, permits us to point out certain changes in the social structure whose extent is not confined to the United States, but ...

Class has long been a dirty word in America. We’re the society of opportunity after all – the place where anyone from anywhere can aspire to be president or at least get very rich. Innumerable ...

Early in her book “White Trash: The 400-Year History of Class in America,” Nancy Isenberg laments that popular American history has seldom referenced the existence of social classes for as ...

Back in 1939, the sociologist George Simpson declared in the American Sociological Review that “the term ‘class’ has assumed an importance in contemporary social theory in inverse proportion ...

Social class is all around us, but in higher education generally and in the field of psychology specifically, with few exceptions, we—faculty members and students alike-avoid the topic.In the ...

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The income you need to fall in America's lower, middle and upper classes — find out where you rank and how these social levels are defined Douglas Warren Sat, Feb 3, 2024, 7:21 AM 4 min read ...

It's fair to say that class plays a significant role in whether people get into the C-suite or not. Indeed, research shows that workers from working-class backgrounds are over 30% less likely to ...