This seminar will review classical and contemporary approaches to social inequality, broadly conceived as the differential distribution of valued social resources and positions. The first half of the ...

Goldthorpe's class theory suggests that social class arises from employment relations in industrialised societies. This article assesses whether class in urban China can be approached from the same ...

Future historians will mark the last decade a watershed for U.S. higher education. Demand for college degrees by employers and families has been growing for generations, yet the politics of providing ...

Social stratification is the structured ranking of individuals and groups in society, often based on class, race, gender, or income. This video breaks down how inequality is created, maintained, and ...

En el presente artículo construimos modelos explicativos sobre el posicionamiento subjetivo de clase social en Argentina, que aporten nueva evidencia y líneas de análisis, considerando el devenir ...

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 ...