We regularly interact with people across race and class lines, but those conversations sometimes go wrong. Lower-status people fear facing discrimination; higher-status people fear being accused of ...
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 ...
The plot of the famous musical My Fair Lady is based on the idea that the way we speak determines our position in society. The main character, Eliza Doolittle, becomes the unwitting target of a bet ...
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 ...
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 ...