A characteristic of the hegemonic political and media culture of the United States is the near invisibility of social class as a major determinant of power. Race and gender have finally started to ...

This article develops a new explorative method for deriving social class categories from patterns of occupational mobility. In line with Max Weber, our research is based on the notion that, if class ...

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 ...

How a 1950s study of social class and mental illness in New Haven changed the way people thought about mental health.

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. Before heading into your next job interview, you might want to review the ...

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 ...

London’s mayor, Boris Johnson, drew criticism late last year for saying that economic inequality can be attributed, in part, to IQ. “I am afraid that [the] violent economic centrifuge [of competition] ...

Ilan Wiesel receives funding from the Australian Research Council. The relentless housing boom in Australia’s cities, especially Melbourne and Sydney, is often framed as an intergenerational conflict ...

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C (Applied Statistics) Estimates are derived for infant mortality rates (including neonatal and post neonatal) categorized by father's occupational ...

A well-off professional who smokes has a much lower survival rate than a non-smoking low-paid worker of the same sex, concludes new research. A well-off professional who smokes has a much lower ...