Where Do I Fall in the American Economic Class System?

When asked how they identify their social class 54% of Americans said they belong to the middle class, according to one ...
Opinion

Mass migration and university degrees killed the old class system. Here’s the new one

For decades, “class” has formed a critical part of the toolkit used to analyse polling results and to plan marketing campaigns. Think of those famous middle-class swing voters of the 1990s – dubbed ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

Why Social Class Matters, Even if We Don’t Agree What It Means

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 ...
JSTOR Daily

Latent Structure Models for Relationally Defined Social Classes

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 ...