Richard Rothstein is the author of Class and Schools, published jointly this spring by Teachers College, Columbia University, and the Economic Policy Institute (epinet.org). The 50th anniversary of ...

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 ...

The New Towns were designed to avoid mainly working class housing and aimed to bring the social classes together in 'balanced' towns and to achieve actual social mixing at neighbourhood level. In the ...

Focusing on parental networks-a central dimension of social capital-this article uses ethnographic data to examine social-class differences in the relations between families and schools. We detail the ...

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 ...

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 ...

For decades, researchers have debated how social class affects a person’s likelihood of helping others. There are two main schools of thought on the topic. One hypothesizes that because lower-income ...

Social class can be hard to discern when billionaires wear hoodies and work late into the night instead of dressing resplendently and lounging poolside like the wealthy of the past. But people are as ...