The division of the population into distinct social classes varied across different city-states, kingdoms and polities in ...

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 ...

Ronald L. Breiger raised an intriguing set of issues for mobility analysts by suggesting that attention must be paid not only to the pattern of mobility between social classes but also to the manner ...

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 ...

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 ...

In ancient Rome, the wealthy patricians ran the empire. The second-class plebeians worked the farms, baked the bread and built the walls. The rest of the workforce—a full third of the Roman population ...