Psychology Today

How Social Class Shapes Identity

But as I age and think more retrospectively, I’m aware of how anxiety about social class played a role, too. Maybe that’s ...
Psychology Today

Social Class

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 ...
The Nation

Race and Class: The Beginnings of an Argument

Portrait of a middle class family sitting on a bench in their garden circa 1945. (Hulton Archive / Getty Images) “Watch out there, Jack, there’s people living under here.” —Ralph Ellison, “The World ...
The Conversation

The concept of class is often avoided in public debate, but it’s essential for understanding inequality

In Australian news, opinion and popular culture, the figures of the hipster and the bogan are everywhere. These figures are proxies for cultural, commercial and moral aspects of class, signalling ...
Libcom

Class: an introduction

The first thing to say is that there are various ways of referring to class. Often, when people talk about class, they talk in terms of cultural/sociological labels. For example, middle-class people ...
Salon

The saga of Brett Kavanaugh: Class, social capital and endless privilege

“Social capital” is a term that refers to relationships, networks, people, money and knowledge that helps to create success in life for individuals, groups and organizations. Because of his life ...