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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new study by a University of Arkansas management professor shows how origins of social class explain risk-taking behavior – good or bad – by the top executives at the largest U.S. public ...

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] ...

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 be ...

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 ...

The authors do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

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 ...