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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Mike Savage calls on sociologists to resolve their differences over definitions of social class to allow better analyses of inequality. Global economic divisions have become so stark in the past ...
In season four of NBC’s “Parks and Recreation,” Paul Rudd plays a wealthy businessman named Bobby Newport who runs for city council because he’s looking for something “easy” to do. He is asked during ...